Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Persius

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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

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

May, Rollo

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Horace

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Mckern, Leo

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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