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

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

Silesius, Angelus

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

10.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

15.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

19.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

23.

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

24.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

27.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

28.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

29.

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

30.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

31.

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

Blum, Leon

32.

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

33.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

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

Madonna

35.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

36.

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

Stone, W. Clement

37.

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)

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

41.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

42.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

43.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

44.

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

Pound, Ezra

45.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

46.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

47.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

48.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

49.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

50.

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