Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Dyer, Wayne

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Clinton, Bill

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, 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.

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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

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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