Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

- Twitchell, Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lenin

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

Ruskin, John

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

11.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

16.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Mandela, Nelson

32.

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

Terence

33.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

43.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

44.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

47.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Voltaire