Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

James, William

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

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

11.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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.

13.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

15.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

16.

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

Blum, Leon

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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

19.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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 is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Sieyes, Abbe

30.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Macleish, Archibald

33.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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

Pericles

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

37.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Madonna

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

43.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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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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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Washington, George