Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Washington, George

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

Voltaire

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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 the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Terence

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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