Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Madonna

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Albert Einstein

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

11.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

13.

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

Hill, Christopher

14.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

15.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

16.

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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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

18.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

20.

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

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

George, David Lloyd

24.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

25.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

28.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

30.

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

31.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

32.

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

Sevareid, Eric

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

35.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

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

Washington, George

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

Henry, Patrick

40.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

43.

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

44.

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

Orwell, George

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

48.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

49.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin