Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

- Madhava, Sri

Best Quotes about 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

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

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

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

10.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

17.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

18.

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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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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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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.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Terence

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

35.

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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Epictetus

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

Blum, Leon

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark