Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Bhagavad Gita

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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

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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.

12.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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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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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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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

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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 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

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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

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

23.

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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Pike, Albert

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

29.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Drummond, William

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

Voltaire

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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