Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Freedom

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Blum, Leon

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Horace

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Stone, W. Clement

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

13.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

22.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

26.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

31.

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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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

33.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

37.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Albert Einstein

44.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

45.

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

Bellin, Gita

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny