Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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

Epictetus

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

12.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

13.

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

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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

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

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

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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

21.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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.

25.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

30.

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

Scott, Hazel

31.

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

Horace

32.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

33.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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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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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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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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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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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Chomsky, Noam

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird