Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Drummond, William

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Patricia Sampson

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Herbert, Frank

11.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

14.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

15.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

16.

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

Durant, William J.

17.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

19.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

20.

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

Pound, Ezra

21.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

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

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

Mckern, Leo

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Lenin

29.

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)

30.

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

31.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

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

33.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

34.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Malcolm X

40.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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 East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

44.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

47.

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

48.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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.