Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Durant, William J.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Mandela, Nelson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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