Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Pike, Albert

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

11.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

James, William

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

22.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Epictetus

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ruskin, John

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

39.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

40.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Silesius, Angelus

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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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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