Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

Clinton, Bill

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.

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

Orwell, George

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

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.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

14.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

15.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

William Hazlitt

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

Pound, Ezra

20.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

21.

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.

22.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

26.

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

Madonna

27.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

29.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

30.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

32.

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

33.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Quayle, Dan

35.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

36.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

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

38.

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

Washington, George

39.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

42.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Albert Einstein

46.

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

47.

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

Macleish, Archibald

48.

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

Henry, Patrick

49.

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

50.

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