Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Blum, Leon

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

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Voltaire

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

Lenin

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mandela, Nelson

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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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.

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pike, Albert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai 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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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

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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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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe