Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Lumsden, Marshall

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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)

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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.

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

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

Dass, Ram

10.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

12.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

13.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

14.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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.

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

19.

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

Thomas Jefferson

20.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

24.

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

25.

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

Pound, Ezra

26.

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

Durant, William J.

27.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

29.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

33.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

34.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

35.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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

38.

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

Brown, Norman O.

39.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

40.

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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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

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

Ewer, W. N.

44.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.