Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

- Dass, Ram

Best Quotes about Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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 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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Adams, John

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

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

10.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Horace

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

19.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

21.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mckern, Leo

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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

30.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Blum, Leon

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Persius

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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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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

47.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

48.

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

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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.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)