Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Epictetus

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

10.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

11.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

13.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

15.

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

16.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

19.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

20.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

21.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

22.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

23.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

24.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

26.

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.

27.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

28.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

30.

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

Ewer, W. N.

31.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

32.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

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

Adams, John

35.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Macleish, Archibald

37.

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

Herbert, Frank

38.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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.

40.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

41.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

42.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

43.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

44.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

46.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

48.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Madonna