Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

- Blount, Wilton M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Drummond, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

10.

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

11.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

12.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

13.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

Lord Acton

16.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

19.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

23.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

24.

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

25.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

27.

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.

28.

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.

29.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

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

Greer, Germaine

34.

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

Mandela, Nelson

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

37.

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

Blum, Leon

38.

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

39.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

40.

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.

41.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

42.

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

Milton, John

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

45.

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

46.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

49.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

50.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.