Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Horace

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

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

Madonna

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.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Washington, George

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

Washington, George

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Quayle, Dan

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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 is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Persius

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Dass, Ram

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

Burke, Edmund