Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

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

Washington, George

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

Drummond, William

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

James, William

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Quayle, Dan