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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

14.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

15.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Herbert, Frank

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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

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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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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

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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

Epictetus

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Washington, George

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Dass, Ram

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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.

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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