Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mckern, Leo

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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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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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Clinton, Bill

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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