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

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rushdie, Salman

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Luther, Martin

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

10.

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.

11.

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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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

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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

34.

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

Clinton, Bill

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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.

40.

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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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