Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

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

Persius

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Orwell, George

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

James, William

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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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 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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De