Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Dass, Ram

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.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

James, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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 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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Pike, Albert

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides