Motivational Quotes

Freedom

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

George, David Lloyd

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Blum, Leon

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.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Lenin

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Epictetus

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Dass, Ram

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Byron, Lord

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Drummond, William

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.