Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

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

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

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

Herbert, Frank

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Washington, George

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hoffer, Eric

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Quayle, Dan

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

36.

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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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lenin

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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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.

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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

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt