Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stone, I. F.

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Persius

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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 hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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.

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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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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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Dass, Ram

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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

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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

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.