Motivational Quotes

Freedom

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

- Silesius, Angelus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Herbert, Frank

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

10.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

17.

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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Lenin

20.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Hamilton, Edith

28.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

31.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

32.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

37.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

40.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

43.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

44.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

45.

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.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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 grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.