Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Malcolm X

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.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

10.

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

11.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

12.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

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

Milton, John

14.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

16.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

17.

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.

18.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Washington, George

20.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

21.

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

Herbert, Frank

22.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

23.

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

Bellin, Gita

24.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

25.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

26.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

27.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

28.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

31.

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

Sevareid, Eric

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

34.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

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

39.

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

Mckern, Leo

40.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

41.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

42.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

43.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

44.

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.

45.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

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

Scott, Hazel

47.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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