Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Washington, George

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

Clinton, Bill

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Madonna

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

11.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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.

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

Milton, John

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

35.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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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.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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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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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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.

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

Epictetus