Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lenin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

La Follette, Suzanne

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Voltaire

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

12.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

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.

16.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

18.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

19.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

22.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

23.

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

Silesius, Angelus

24.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

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

Scott, Hazel

26.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

30.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

31.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

32.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

33.

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

34.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

35.

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

Durant, William J.

36.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

37.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

38.

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

39.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

40.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

42.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

43.

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

44.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

45.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

46.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

47.

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

Bhagavad Gita

48.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.