Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Persius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Madonna

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.

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

10.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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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

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Burke, Edmund

22.

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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

24.

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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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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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

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Horace

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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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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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

50.

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.