Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- La Follette, Suzanne

Best Quotes about Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

10.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

11.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

12.

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

13.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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.

Euripides

16.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

17.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

19.

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

20.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

21.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

23.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Washington, George

25.

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

26.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Pericles

28.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

29.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

33.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

36.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

42.

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

Chomsky, Noam

43.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

44.

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

Bellin, Gita

45.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

William Hazlitt

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Luther, Martin

50.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson