Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Durant, William J.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Lenin

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Bellin, Gita

11.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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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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

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

Voltaire

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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

27.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

28.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Hamilton, Edith

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

James, William

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Ruskin, John