Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

- Sackville-West, Vita

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Clinton, Bill

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

10.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

12.

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

Quayle, Dan

13.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

14.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

23.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Drummond, William

25.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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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 is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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

Terence

33.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Washington, George

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

49.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Pike, Albert