Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

- Gordimer, Nadine

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Gordimer, Nadine

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

13.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Mandela, Nelson

16.

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

17.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

18.

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

19.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

20.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

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

22.

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

Herbert, Frank

23.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Albert Einstein

25.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

26.

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

27.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

28.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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

31.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

33.

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

Scott, Hazel

35.

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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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

38.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

39.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

40.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

41.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

42.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

43.

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

44.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

45.

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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

47.

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

Washington, George

48.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

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