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 and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Clinton, Bill

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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 only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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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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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Drummond, William

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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.

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

Epictetus

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Voltaire

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De