Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rushdie, Salman

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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 forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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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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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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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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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 the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Ruskin, John

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Pike, Albert

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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