Motivational Quotes

Freedom

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Freedom

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Hill, Christopher

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Pound, Ezra

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Washington, George

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

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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

Sieyes, Abbe

10.

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

11.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

12.

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.

13.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

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

17.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

Herbert, Frank

20.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

23.

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

Orwell, George

24.

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

25.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas Jefferson

28.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

29.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

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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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

35.

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

36.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

37.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

38.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

39.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

40.

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

41.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

42.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Burke, Edmund

44.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

45.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

48.

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

Drummond, William

49.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

50.

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