Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Herbert, Frank

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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

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

Washington, George

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

James, William

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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

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Persius

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

Johnson, Samuel