Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

- Powell, Adam Clayton

Best Quotes about Freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

10.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

29.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.