Motivational Quotes

Freedom

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Walker, Alice

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Blum, Leon

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Ruskin, John

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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 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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

33.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Washington, George

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Mckern, Leo

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