Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Scott, Hazel

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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

Voltaire

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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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Pound, Ezra

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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 English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Burke, Edmund

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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