Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

- Foster, Alan Dean

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Voltaire

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

Dass, Ram

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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

Bellin, Gita

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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

31.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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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

42.

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

James, William

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Terence

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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth