Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Burke, Edmund

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

10.

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.

11.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

13.

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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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.

15.

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Madonna

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

Byron, Lord

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Herbert, Frank

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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 the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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

49.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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

Voltaire