Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Washington, George

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Clinton, Bill

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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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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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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 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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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.