Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Malcolm X

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

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

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

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

Blum, Leon

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

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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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

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

Clinton, Bill

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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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.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Malcolm X

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

Macleish, Archibald

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther