Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Mandela, Nelson

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Ruskin, John

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

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus