Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

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

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Clinton, Bill

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

12.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

15.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ruskin, John

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

26.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

27.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

29.

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

30.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

31.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

34.

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

35.

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

Malcolm X

36.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

37.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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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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

42.

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

43.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

45.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.