Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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 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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

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

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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 most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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 free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Voltaire

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Drummond, William

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster