Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Adams, John

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

Herbert, Frank

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

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

Voltaire

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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

20.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Washington, George

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Epictetus

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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