Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Mandela, Nelson

Best Quotes about Freedom

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Epictetus

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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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

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Pericles

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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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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Bellin, Gita

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Voltaire

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X