Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Voltaire

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

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

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

11.

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

12.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

William Hazlitt

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

20.

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

Macleish, Archibald

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

Mckern, Leo

24.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sevareid, Eric

26.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert, Frank

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Persius