Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Persius

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

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

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Voltaire

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

10.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

11.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

14.

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

15.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

18.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

19.

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

20.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

26.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

28.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

30.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

32.

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

Lord Acton

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

41.

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

42.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

William Hazlitt

48.

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

49.

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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin