Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Persius

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But 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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

James, William

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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 only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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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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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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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

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.