Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Persius

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Dass, Ram

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Terence

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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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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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Scott, Hazel

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul