Motivational Quotes

Freedom

No one who lives in error is free.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Freedom

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

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

Bellin, Gita

10.

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

Stone, W. Clement

11.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

Epictetus

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Herbert, Frank

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

22.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

26.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Luther, Martin

28.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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, 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

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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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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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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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

43.

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Voltaire

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce