Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

- Lovell, Marie

Best Quotes about Freedom

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Washington, George

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Epictetus

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

Stone, I. F.

29.

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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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

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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

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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

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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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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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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Voltaire

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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