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

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

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

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

Drummond, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

11.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

12.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

13.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

14.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

15.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

16.

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

17.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

18.

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

Adams, John

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Lord Acton

21.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Macleish, Archibald

23.

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

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

26.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

27.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

28.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

29.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

32.

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

Dass, Ram

33.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

36.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

37.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

40.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

42.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

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

May, Rollo

44.

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

45.

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

46.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

47.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

48.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

49.

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

50.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.