Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Albert Einstein

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Epictetus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

32.

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 is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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