Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Henry, Patrick

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pike, Albert

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.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

11.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

James, William

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Pericles

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

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Chomsky, Noam

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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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