Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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.

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

Madonna

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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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 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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Baudrillard, Jean

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 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.

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Clinton, Bill

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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.