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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Durant, William J.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Dass, Ram

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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

Epictetus

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