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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henry, Patrick

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Hill, Christopher

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.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

10.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Chomsky, Noam

12.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

James, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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.

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

Blum, Leon

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

Milton, John

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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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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lord Acton

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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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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Clinton, Bill