Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Washington, George

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Malcolm X

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pike, Albert

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

19.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Mckern, Leo

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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)

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Lenin

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Herbert, Frank

47.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Samuel