Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hill, Christopher

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Rushdie, Salman

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

15.

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

Washington, George

16.

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

Madonna

17.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

18.

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.

19.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

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

21.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

23.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

25.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Stone, W. Clement

29.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

30.

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

Herbert, Frank

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.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

33.

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

Ewer, W. N.

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

38.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

42.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Orwell, George

46.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

47.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

49.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

50.

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