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

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Adams, John

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

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

Lord Acton

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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 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

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Blum, Leon

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

Pericles

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Persius

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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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.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bellin, Gita

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Orwell, George

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.