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

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

Hoffer, Eric

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pericles

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rushdie, Salman

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Patricia Sampson

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dass, Ram

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

Herbert, Frank

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Mckern, Leo

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Terence

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.