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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Drummond, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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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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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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

23.

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

24.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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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

33.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

35.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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 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

45.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Ruskin, John