Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mckern, Leo

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Pericles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Epictetus

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

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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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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

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

Lenin

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Washington, George

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Orwell, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

39.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Malcolm X

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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