Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Drummond, William

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

Ruskin, John

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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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 foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Persius

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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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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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Pound, Ezra

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.