Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Stone, W. Clement

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Scott, Hazel

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

10.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

11.

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

12.

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

Terence

13.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

14.

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

Quayle, Dan

15.

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

Lenin

16.

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

17.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Pike, Albert

23.

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.

24.

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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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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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

29.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

30.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

31.

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

32.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

35.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

38.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

40.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

41.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

42.

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

Henry, Patrick

43.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

44.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

45.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Mandela, Nelson

47.

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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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

49.

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

Hamilton, Edith