Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Freedom

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Chomsky, Noam

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

10.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Pike, Albert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!