Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Epictetus

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

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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

Adams, John

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

10.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Pericles

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

James, William

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

Voltaire

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

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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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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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

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

40.

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

Horace

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Bellin, Gita

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides