Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Adams, John

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

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

Dass, Ram

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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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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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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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.

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.