Motivational Quotes

Freedom

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

- Silesius, Angelus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Hazlitt

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Scott, Hazel

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

11.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

12.

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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

James, William

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

22.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

23.

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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

33.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pericles

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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Madonna

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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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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.