Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Drummond, William

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

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.

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

Lenin

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pike, Albert

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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

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

31.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

32.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Patricia Sampson

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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 is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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