Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Adams, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Orwell, George

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Bellin, Gita

12.

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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Drummond, William

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Persius

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

49.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.