Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

- Norton, Eleanor Holmes

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

May, Rollo

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

Voltaire

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

12.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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

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

Persius

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

George, David Lloyd

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Horace

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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

50.

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