Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Quayle, Dan

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

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mckern, Leo

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

11.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

14.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

15.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

16.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

19.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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.

22.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

25.

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

28.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

30.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

31.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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

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

39.

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

Albert Einstein

40.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Lenin

42.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Epictetus

47.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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