Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

Malcolm X

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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)

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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

18.

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

19.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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.

25.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

28.

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 and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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 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

33.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

41.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Blum, Leon

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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 is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

48.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo