Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Macleish, Archibald

Best Quotes about Freedom

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

16.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

17.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

18.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

19.

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

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

21.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

26.

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

Washington, George

27.

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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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

30.

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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

32.

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.

33.

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

Chomsky, Noam

34.

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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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.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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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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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

40.

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

Quayle, Dan

41.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

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

43.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

44.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

49.

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

James, William

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James