Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

- Alan Dean Foster

Best Quotes about Freedom

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Macleish, Archibald

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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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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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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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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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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 don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

34.

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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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Dass, Ram

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Epictetus

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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon