Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Lord Acton

11.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

12.

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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

15.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

16.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

17.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

18.

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

Pericles

19.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

20.

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

Terence

21.

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

Washington, George

22.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

23.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

25.

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

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

James, William

27.

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

28.

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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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.

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

35.

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

Clinton, Bill

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

43.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

44.

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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

48.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.