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

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

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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 only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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

James, William

10.

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.

11.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

12.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Albert Einstein

20.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

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.

22.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

23.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

24.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

28.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

29.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

31.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

32.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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

35.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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.

37.

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

38.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

41.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

44.

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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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.