Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

2.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

3.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.

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

Milton, John

5.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

6.

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

7.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

8.

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

9.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

10.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

13.

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

Madonna

14.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

15.

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

Hill, Christopher

16.

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

17.

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

Persius

18.

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

19.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

23.

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

24.

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

Terence

25.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Mandela, Nelson

29.

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

Pike, Albert

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

32.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

33.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

35.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

36.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

37.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

38.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

43.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

44.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

45.

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