Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Washington, George

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

Epictetus

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

18.

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

Madonna

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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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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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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Voltaire

35.

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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Horace

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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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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

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

Terence

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.