Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lenin

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

Washington, George

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Johnson, Samuel

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

11.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

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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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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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

James, William

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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.

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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

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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 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 sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Epictetus

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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton