Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madonna

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Byron, Lord

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Washington, George

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Voltaire

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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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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Terence

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Voltaire

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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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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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