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

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.

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

Dass, Ram

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Madonna

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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.

11.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

12.

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)

13.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

14.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

18.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

20.

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

21.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

22.

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

Clinton, Bill

23.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

24.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

25.

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

Mandela, Nelson

26.

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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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

28.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

30.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

31.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

33.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

34.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

35.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

36.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

37.

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

Lenin

38.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

40.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

42.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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

Luther, Martin

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.