Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Madonna

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Scott, Hazel

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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

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X