Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The secret of freedom, courage.

- Thucydides

Best Quotes about Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Persius

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

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

Milton, John

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Albert Einstein

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

15.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

18.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

19.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

Madonna

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

Dass, Ram

28.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

Pike, Albert

30.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Sevareid, Eric

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Voltaire

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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

49.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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