Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Quayle, Dan

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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

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

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

17.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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.

21.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

22.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Madonna

36.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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 emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.