Motivational Quotes

Freedom

He who is brave is free.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Herbert, Frank

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Lenin

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

Pericles

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

Voltaire

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