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

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Adams, John

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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

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

Drummond, William

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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 fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Browne, Harry

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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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