Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Pound, Ezra

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Pericles

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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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Madonna

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Ruskin, John

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Terence

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean