Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- William Hazlitt

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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.

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

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Scott, Hazel

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Washington, George

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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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.

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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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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

39.

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

Lenin

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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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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

45.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De