Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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Best Quotes about Freedom

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Drummond, William

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Voltaire

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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

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Albert Einstein

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Milton, John

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Aristotle

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ruskin, John

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von