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

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

Adams, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Madonna

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

James, William

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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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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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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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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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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.