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

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

Hill, Christopher

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Epictetus

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pericles

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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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Horace

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

William Hazlitt

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

Luther, Martin

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.