Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

- Alan Dean Foster

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Milton, John

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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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 freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

43.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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