Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

James, William

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Blum, Leon

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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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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 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