Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sevareid, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Macleish, Archibald

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

12.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

17.

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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Horace

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

23.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Clinton, Bill

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

29.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Milton, John

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

34.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

35.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

Drummond, William

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

40.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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

42.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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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.

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

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris