Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Freedom

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Malcolm X

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

James, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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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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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Dass, Ram

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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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

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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