Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Blum, Leon

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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 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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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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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Persius

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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

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

Drummond, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Horace

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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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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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese