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

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

Aristotle

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.

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

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Persius

10.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

11.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Quayle, Dan

15.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

20.

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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Herbert, Frank

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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