Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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 not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Horace

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

Pound, Ezra

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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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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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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