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

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

Scott, Hazel

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

10.

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

Lord Acton

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

12.

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

Madonna

13.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

19.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

Herbert, Frank

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Sevareid, Eric

26.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

33.

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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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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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

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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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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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