Motivational Quotes

Freedom

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

- Sang Kyu Shin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Persius

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)

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Burke, Edmund

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

13.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

15.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

Drummond, William

18.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

19.

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

20.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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

Milton, John

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Ruskin, John

24.

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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

26.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

27.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

32.

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

33.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

34.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Washington, George

38.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

41.

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

Pike, Albert

42.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace