Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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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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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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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.