Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Orwell, George

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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.

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

Voltaire

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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

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Stone, I. F.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pound, Ezra

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Henry, Patrick

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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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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.