Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

- Alan Dean Foster

Best Quotes about Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lenin

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hamilton, Edith

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Malcolm X

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

Voltaire

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

Pericles

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton