Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lord Acton

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Milton, John

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Epictetus

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Voltaire

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Epictetus

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.