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

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

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

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.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

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

Epictetus

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

May, Rollo

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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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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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pericles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Luther, Martin

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Henry, Patrick

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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

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Durant, William J.

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hill, Christopher

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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