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

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Stone, I. F.

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.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Luther, Martin

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

10.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

12.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

13.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

14.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

15.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

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

17.

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

Scott, Hazel

18.

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

Washington, George

19.

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

Washington, George

20.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

22.

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

Terence

23.

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

24.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

25.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

26.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

27.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

37.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Herbert, Frank

40.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

42.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

45.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset