Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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Best Quotes about Freedom

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Washington, George

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

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bellin, Gita

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

William Hazlitt

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.