Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

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

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

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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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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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

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

Ewer, W. N.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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

James, William

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

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

Drummond, William

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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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

Burke, Edmund

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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)

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Rollo

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider