Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Quayle, Dan

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Washington, George

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

Horace

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Lenin

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

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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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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

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chomsky, Noam

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Aristotle

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

May, Rollo

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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