Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Pericles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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

16.

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

Lord Acton

17.

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

18.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

19.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

20.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

21.

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

Burke, Edmund

22.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

23.

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

Stone, W. Clement

24.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

25.

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

26.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

27.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

28.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

Chomsky, Noam

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

34.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

35.

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

Drummond, William

36.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

38.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

44.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

46.

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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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

49.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.