Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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 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

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

Washington, George

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

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.

11.

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

Quayle, Dan

12.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Reagan, Ronald

14.

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

15.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

16.

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

Orwell, George

17.

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

Macleish, Archibald

18.

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

Pound, Ezra

19.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

23.

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

William Hazlitt

24.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

26.

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

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Madonna

30.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

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

Pike, Albert

32.

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

33.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

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

Albert Einstein

36.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

37.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

39.

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

Milton, John

40.

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

41.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

42.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

43.

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

44.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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.

48.

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

Dass, Ram

49.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath