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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Stone, I. F.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

11.

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

Lenin

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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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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Washington, George

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Pericles

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Madriaga, Salvador 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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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dass, Ram

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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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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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