Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Luther, Martin

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Terence

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Dass, Ram

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean