Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Pericles

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

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Epictetus

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

12.

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

13.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

14.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

15.

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

16.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

17.

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

18.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Mckern, Leo

20.

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

Clinton, Bill

21.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

23.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

25.

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

Orwell, George

26.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

27.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

28.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

29.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

35.

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

36.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

Chomsky, Noam

38.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

39.

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

40.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Hill, Christopher

46.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.