Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sevareid, Eric

10.

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

Persius

11.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

13.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

15.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

18.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

19.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

21.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

24.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

27.

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

28.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

29.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

30.

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.

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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

32.

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

33.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

35.

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.

36.

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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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.

40.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

42.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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