Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Horace

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Malcolm X

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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

Quayle, Dan

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Lawana Blackwell

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb