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

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

Pericles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

11.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

13.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

15.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

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

18.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

20.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

22.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

24.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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

29.

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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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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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

35.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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

Malcolm X

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Dass, Ram

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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 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