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

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Stone, I. F.

10.

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

Chomsky, Noam

11.

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

Clinton, Bill

13.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

14.

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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

30.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

35.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pericles

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Persius

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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