Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hill, Christopher

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Hamilton, Edith

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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Dass, Ram

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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

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Albert Einstein

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Pound, Ezra

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Washington, George

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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.