Motivational Quotes

Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Freedom

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Blum, Leon

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

Albert Einstein

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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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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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Mckern, Leo

25.

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

26.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

31.

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.

32.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Pascal, Blaise

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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

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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

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John