Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Drummond, William

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Durant, William J.

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

11.

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

Orwell, George

12.

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

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

16.

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.

17.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

23.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

24.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

25.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Rushdie, Salman

29.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

30.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

31.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Dass, Ram

33.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

40.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

41.

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

Brown, Norman O.

42.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

Adams, John

45.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

47.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

48.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.