Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Clinton, Bill

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

10.

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

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

12.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

13.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Drummond, William

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

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

Dass, Ram

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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

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

Orwell, George

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

Mckern, Leo

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herbert, Frank

47.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Pericles

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus