Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Henry, Patrick

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

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

Horace

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Ruskin, John

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dass, Ram

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

Herbert, Frank

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