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

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Quayle, Dan

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

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

Durant, William J.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lenin

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

James, William

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Malcolm X

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

Hamilton, Edith

33.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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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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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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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Orwell, George

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb