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

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

Malcolm X

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Silesius, Angelus

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Epictetus

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

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Drummond, William

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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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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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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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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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

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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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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