Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Dass, Ram

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

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Blum, Leon

10.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

11.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Quayle, Dan

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

18.

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

19.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

22.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

23.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

24.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

26.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, Norman O.

30.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

37.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

41.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

43.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

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

46.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

47.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

48.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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.