Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Mckern, Leo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Madonna

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Horace

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Voltaire

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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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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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Terence

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel