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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Sackville-West, Vita

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

May, Rollo

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

10.

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

William Hazlitt

12.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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.

16.

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

Pericles

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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

18.

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

Persius

19.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

20.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

21.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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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

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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

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

30.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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

Pike, Albert

34.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

35.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

40.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

43.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

45.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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 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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.