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

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

Voltaire

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

Blum, Leon

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

Pike, Albert

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Aristotle

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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 is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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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.

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

Quayle, Dan

33.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

37.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dass, Ram

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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