Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Ruskin, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Drummond, William

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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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Voltaire

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Persius

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Bellin, Gita

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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