Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sieyes, Abbe

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Voltaire

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Pericles

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

10.

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

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

36.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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