Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Freedom

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Voltaire

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Albert Einstein

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

Pike, Albert

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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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)

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Milton, John

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Orwell, George

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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