Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Luther, Martin

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sieyes, Abbe

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Herbert, Frank

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Persius

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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 is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.