Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Madonna

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

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Voltaire

11.

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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Burke, Edmund

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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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

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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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

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

Milton, John