Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sahib, The Siri Singh

Best Quotes about Freedom

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Malcolm X

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Stone, W. Clement

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Persius

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.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Burke, Edmund

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Pike, Albert

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Epictetus

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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Orwell, George

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pound, Ezra

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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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