Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

10.

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

Rushdie, Salman

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Durant, William J.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Horace

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

Epictetus

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Terence

41.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ewer, W. N.

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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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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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