Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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)

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

James, William

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

Lenin

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

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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.

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

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mandela, Nelson

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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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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

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Drummond, William

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

Epictetus

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Washington, George

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

49.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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