Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Rushdie, Salman

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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

Persius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Burke, Edmund

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Epictetus

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.