Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Norman O.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Pound, Ezra

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Blum, Leon

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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

34.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Horace

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques