Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Blum, Leon

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Pike, Albert

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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

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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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Dass, Ram

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

Orwell, George

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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 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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Horace

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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 is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Persius

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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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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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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

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

Greer, Germaine

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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