Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

James, William

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Rushdie, Salman

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

10.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Adams, John

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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.

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pike, Albert

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Dass, Ram

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Terence

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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