Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Epictetus

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pericles

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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.

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

Lenin

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Persius

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Herbert, Frank

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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