Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Silesius, Angelus

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Washington, George

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Terence

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Persius

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Malcolm X

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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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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam