Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

10.

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

11.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

12.

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

Aristotle

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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

14.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

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

18.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

20.

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 Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Washington, George

24.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Greer, Germaine

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

33.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

34.

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

35.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

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

Stone, I. F.

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

43.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.