Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Hill, Christopher

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

11.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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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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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

30.

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.

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

32.

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

33.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Malcolm X

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

44.

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

Persius

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William