Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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)

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

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Reagan, Ronald

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

21.

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

Sevareid, Eric

22.

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

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

Pericles

24.

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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.

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

27.

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

28.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

30.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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

Stone, I. F.

34.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Scott, Hazel

38.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

39.

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

Dass, Ram

40.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Terence

48.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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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

50.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.