Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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)

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

May, Rollo

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Washington, George

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Clinton, Bill

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Henry, Patrick

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Lenin

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Horace

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Ruskin, John

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David