Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

- Macaulay, Rose

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

May, Rollo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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.

11.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Orwell, George

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Voltaire

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

Clinton, Bill

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

25.

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

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Aristotle

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

Washington, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Milton, John

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

35.

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

James, William

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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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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

38.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

45.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Washington, George

48.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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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