Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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)

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hamilton, Edith

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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.

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

12.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

44.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Voltaire