Motivational Quotes

Freedom

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Sackville-West, Vita

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Stone, W. Clement

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

Lenin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Ewer, W. N.

23.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

26.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

27.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Blum, Leon

29.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

30.

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

Clinton, Bill

31.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Orwell, George

34.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

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

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

38.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

45.

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

Terence

46.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

47.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

49.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.