Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

- Twitchell, Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Voltaire

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Aristotle

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Patricia Sampson

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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