Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Adams, John

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

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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

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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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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

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

James, William

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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

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace