Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Drummond, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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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

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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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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Aristotle

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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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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Terence

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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

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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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von