Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Voltaire

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

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dass, Ram

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

Maistre, Joseph 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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Silesius, Angelus

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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