Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Luther, Martin

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Herbert, Frank

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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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

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Persius

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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