Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Adams, John

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Luther, Martin

30.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mandela, Nelson

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Stone, W. Clement

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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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

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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