Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

3.

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

4.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

5.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

6.

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

Milton, John

7.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

8.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

9.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

13.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

16.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

17.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

18.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Dass, Ram

20.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

21.

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

Mandela, Nelson

22.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

William Hazlitt

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

27.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

28.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

29.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Macleish, Archibald

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Terence

35.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

37.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

James, William

40.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Clinton, Bill

42.

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

43.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

44.

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

45.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

May, Rollo

47.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

48.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

49.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

50.

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