Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Blum, Leon

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

Dass, Ram

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

Adams, John

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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.

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

12.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

16.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

21.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Epictetus

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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

27.

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

28.

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)

29.

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

Durant, William J.

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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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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.

34.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

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

38.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

40.

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

Milton, John

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

42.

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

Washington, George

43.

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

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Chomsky, Noam

48.

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

49.

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

50.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.