Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Freedom

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Mandela, Nelson

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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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.

15.

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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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

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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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

21.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

28.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Pound, Ezra

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

38.

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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.