Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

La Follette, Suzanne

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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

Malcolm X

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Epictetus

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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Malcolm X