Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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

18.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Adams, John

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

30.

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

Scott, Hazel

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

38.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lord Acton

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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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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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