Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lumsden, Marshall

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

James, William

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

24.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

28.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Macleish, Archibald

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton