Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Persius

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Madonna

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

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

Pike, Albert

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

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

James, William

11.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Dass, Ram

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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

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lord Acton

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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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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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Persius

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John