Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

1.

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

Bhagavad Gita

2.

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

3.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

4.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

5.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

6.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

12.

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

13.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

14.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

15.

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

Chomsky, Noam

16.

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

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

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

Durant, William J.

19.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

20.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

21.

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

22.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

Rushdie, Salman

24.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

25.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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

Persius

28.

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

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

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

Burke, Edmund

31.

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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Hamilton, Edith

34.

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

35.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

36.

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

37.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

38.

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

39.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Herbert, Frank

41.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

42.

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