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

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

Henry, Patrick

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

Pike, Albert

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Washington, George

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

Voltaire

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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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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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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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

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