Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

- Yeltsin, Boris

Best Quotes about Freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Pound, Ezra

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

10.

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

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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

Chomsky, Noam

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

14.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

20.

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.

21.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

22.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

26.

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

Sevareid, Eric

27.

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

28.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

29.

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.

30.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

31.

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

32.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

33.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

34.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

35.

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

36.

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

37.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

38.

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

Mckern, Leo

39.

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.

40.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

43.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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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

49.

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

Bellin, Gita

50.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca