Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

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

Pericles

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Voltaire

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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

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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

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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

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Quayle, Dan

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

33.

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

Milton, John

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

Washington, George

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Voltaire

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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)

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

Persius

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pound, Ezra