Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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 just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott, Hazel

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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

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Washington, George

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lord Acton

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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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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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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.

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

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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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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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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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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.

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