Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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.

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lord Acton

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Horace

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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