Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

31.

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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pike, Albert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

43.

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von