Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Madonna

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Clinton, Bill

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Voltaire

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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.