Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Aristotle

12.

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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Albert Einstein

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Drummond, William

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

Persius

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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 by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Quayle, Dan

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace