Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Freedom

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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)

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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pericles

10.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

11.

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

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

15.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

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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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

18.

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

Chomsky, Noam

19.

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

20.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

22.

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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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

25.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

30.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

32.

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

Drummond, William

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

35.

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

Orwell, George

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

42.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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 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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

49.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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

Milton, John