Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Chomsky, Noam

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Quayle, Dan

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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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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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

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

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

Washington, George

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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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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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 exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Orwell, George

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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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Terence

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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

Dass, Ram

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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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

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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.