Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Hill, Christopher

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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

10.

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

Persius

11.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

12.

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

13.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

14.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Terence

16.

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

17.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

18.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

19.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Lord Acton

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

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

25.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

27.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

28.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

29.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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

33.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott, Hazel

38.

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

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

Dass, Ram

40.

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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

43.

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

Adams, John

45.

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

46.

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

Drummond, William

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