Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Henry, Patrick

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lenin

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

14.

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

Albert Einstein

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Reagan, Ronald

19.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Stone, W. Clement

22.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

James, William

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

Rushdie, Salman

32.

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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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

43.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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.

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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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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