Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Freedom

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Albert Einstein

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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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

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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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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Voltaire

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Blum, Leon

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von