Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

William Hazlitt

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.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Malcolm X

11.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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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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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

28.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Lord Acton

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Patricia Sampson

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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.