Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

13.

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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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

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Burke, Edmund

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Drummond, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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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.

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Washington, George

40.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Sevareid, Eric

44.

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

Mckern, Leo

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.