Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Pike, Albert

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Persius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

17.

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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

20.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Albert Einstein

25.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

27.

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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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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.

31.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

32.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

33.

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

Washington, George

34.

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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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

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

45.

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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Stone, I. F.

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