Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Voltaire

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

Orwell, George

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.

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Pike, Albert

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Milton, John

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

39.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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