Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Persius

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

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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

Drummond, William

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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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

11.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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

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

Hamilton, Edith

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

25.

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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

29.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

31.

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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.

40.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

43.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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

Madonna

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.