Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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)

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

Thomas Jefferson

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Orwell, George

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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

14.

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

15.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Madonna

18.

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

Drummond, William

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

24.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

25.

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.

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

27.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Burke, Edmund

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Washington, George

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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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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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

Silesius, Angelus

37.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

42.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.