Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Hoffer, Eric

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Voltaire

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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

James, William

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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

17.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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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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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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.

22.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

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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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stone, I. F.

48.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.