Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

10.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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 law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

31.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

38.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry