Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Albert Einstein

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.

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

May, Rollo

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Herbert, Frank

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith