Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Drummond, William

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Lumsden, Marshall

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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

19.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

20.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

24.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Byron, Lord

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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 free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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.

43.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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