Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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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

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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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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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Terence

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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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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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.