Motivational Quotes

Freedom

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Freedom

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Horace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Malcolm X

10.

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

Albert Einstein

11.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

12.

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

13.

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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

18.

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

Persius

19.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

24.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

27.

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

Quayle, Dan

28.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

31.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Washington, George

36.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

39.

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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

45.

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

46.

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

Henry, Patrick

48.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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A hungry man is not a free man.