Motivational Quotes

Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

10.

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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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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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

15.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

16.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

18.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

19.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

20.

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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

22.

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

23.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

25.

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

Stone, W. Clement

26.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

27.

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

Washington, George

28.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

29.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

30.

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

31.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

33.

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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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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

40.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

41.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

42.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Tagore, Rabindranath