Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Madonna

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

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

Sackville-West, Vita

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Quayle, Dan

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

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

Voltaire

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Dass, Ram

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

Stone, W. Clement

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.