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

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

Orwell, George

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.

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

Terence

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

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Voltaire

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

William Hazlitt

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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.