Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

- Sang Kyu Shin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, I. F.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

10.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

11.

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

12.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

13.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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.

21.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

22.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

26.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

30.

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.

31.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

37.

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

38.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

40.

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

41.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

42.

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

Mckern, Leo

43.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Sevareid, Eric

47.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

48.

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

49.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

50.

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