Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

- Barbara Hall

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Bellin, Gita

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Voltaire

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

Pericles

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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 always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Epictetus

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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

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

Orwell, George

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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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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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von