Motivational Quotes

Freedom

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

- Doren, Mark Van

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Macleish, Archibald

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)

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Pound, Ezra

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

10.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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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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

14.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

19.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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 only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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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.

25.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

26.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

28.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

29.

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

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

Dass, Ram

31.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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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

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Orwell, George

35.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

36.

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.

37.

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

39.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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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.

44.

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

Ruskin, John

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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd