Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

17.

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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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

19.

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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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

23.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

Byron, Lord

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

Ruskin, John

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Drummond, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De