Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Stone, W. Clement

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Hazlitt

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

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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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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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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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.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pericles

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Pike, Albert

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

Pound, Ezra

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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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.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain