Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

11.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

12.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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

Drummond, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Lenin

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Malcolm X

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.