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

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

10.

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

11.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Aristotle

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Milton, John

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

48.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Voltaire

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia