Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

William Hazlitt

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Terence

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Horace

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Epictetus

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.