Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sahib, The Siri Singh

Best Quotes about Freedom

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Horace

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Stone, W. Clement

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Drummond, William

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Terence

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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

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.