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

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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 is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Aristotle

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Hazlitt

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Washington, George

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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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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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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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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

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

Mckern, Leo

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Lawana Blackwell

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