Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Voltaire

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

Malcolm X

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

12.

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.

13.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

14.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

15.

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

16.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

17.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

18.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

22.

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

Chomsky, Noam

23.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

25.

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

26.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

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

28.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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

32.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

33.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

34.

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

35.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

36.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

37.

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

Orwell, George

38.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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.

40.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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.

42.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

45.

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

Hamilton, Edith

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Herbert, Frank

49.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

50.

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

Voltaire