Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Freedom

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Washington, George

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Persius

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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.

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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)

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

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Byron, Lord

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

May, Rollo

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Dass, Ram

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

Blum, Leon

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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