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

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Scott, Hazel

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Mandela, Nelson

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Pericles

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

James, William

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Voltaire

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hill, Christopher

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Aristotle

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.