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

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Pound, Ezra

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Hazlitt

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Clinton, Bill

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia