Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Scott, Hazel

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hoffer, Eric

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

11.

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

Epictetus

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Luther, Martin

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

Dass, Ram

27.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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

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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

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese