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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Voltaire

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

Herbert, Frank

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

15.

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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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.

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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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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Sevareid, Eric

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Patricia Sampson

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

William Hazlitt

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Pound, Ezra