Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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.

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

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

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Persius

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

James, William

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Horace

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Pericles

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton