Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Burke, Edmund

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.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

13.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

15.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Persius

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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 always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Byron, Lord

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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

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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)

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

42.

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

Pericles

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

Clinton, Bill

44.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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