Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pound, Ezra

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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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.

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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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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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 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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

James, William

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dass, Ram

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Drummond, William

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