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

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Epictetus

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

May, Rollo

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Ruskin, John

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

Albert Einstein

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

Persius

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Voltaire

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.