Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Madonna

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lawana Blackwell

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sieyes, Abbe

10.

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

11.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

12.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

13.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

15.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

19.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

George, David Lloyd

21.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

23.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

24.

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

Mandela, Nelson

25.

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

Lenin

26.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

27.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

28.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Sevareid, Eric

30.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

31.

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

Blum, Leon

32.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

34.

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.

35.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

36.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

La Follette, Suzanne

40.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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 suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

45.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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