Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mandela, Nelson

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.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Luther, Martin

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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

17.

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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Aristotle

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

May, Rollo

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Orwell, George

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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

Washington, George

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