Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sevareid, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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.

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

Albert Einstein

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Epictetus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lord Acton

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Horace

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Persius

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Epictetus

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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 an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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?