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

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)

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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

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

Voltaire

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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

14.

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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

20.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Washington, George

30.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Blum, Leon

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bellin, Gita

39.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon