Motivational Quotes

Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

17.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

21.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

30.

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

Epictetus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Pericles

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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

37.

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

James, William

38.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

39.

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

Chomsky, Noam

40.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

41.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

42.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

44.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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 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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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