Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

- Thomson, Linda

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Adams, John

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

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.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

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

Malcolm X

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Washington, George

10.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Scott, Hazel

14.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

15.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Orwell, George

28.

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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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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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Adams, John

33.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

James, William

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

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

43.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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

49.

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

Pericles

50.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert