Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Washington, George

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Malcolm X

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.

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

Terence

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lenin

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Epictetus

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles