Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Durant, William J.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Scott, Hazel

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Aristotle

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Quayle, Dan

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Herbert, Frank

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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 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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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