Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Mandela, Nelson

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Hoffer, Eric

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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 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

10.

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

Quayle, Dan

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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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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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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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

20.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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

22.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Maistre, Joseph De

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

36.

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

Mandela, Nelson

37.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny