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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

William Hazlitt

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Orwell, George

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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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

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Drummond, William

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Pericles

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

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

Epictetus

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Persius

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

Horace

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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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

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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