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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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.

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

Orwell, George

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

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

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

10.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

11.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

12.

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

13.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

14.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

15.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

16.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

17.

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

18.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

19.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

23.

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

Washington, George

24.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

25.

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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

27.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

28.

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

29.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

30.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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.

34.

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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Persius

37.

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

38.

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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Durant, William J.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

46.

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

49.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

50.

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