Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Hubbard, Elbert

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

10.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

14.

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

Scott, Hazel

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

17.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

19.

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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

25.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

26.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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.