Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Mandela, Nelson

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.

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

Voltaire

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

17.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Stone, I. F.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Pike, Albert

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

Bhagavad Gita

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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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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.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Epictetus

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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