Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Mandela, Nelson

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Albert Einstein

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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Malcolm X

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren