Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Voltaire

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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)

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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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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Mandela, Nelson

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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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.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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

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

Madonna

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

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Dass, Ram

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cooley, Charles Horton