Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

- Sevareid, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Drummond, William

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

La Follette, Suzanne

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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)

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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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Pericles

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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 progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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