Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Milton, John

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Dyer, Wayne

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

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

Hill, Christopher

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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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.

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clinton, Bill

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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

Mckern, Leo

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

19.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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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.

33.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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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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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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