Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Malcolm X

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pericles

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador 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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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Orwell, George

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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

29.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Ruskin, John

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.