Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only law can give us freedom.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Freedom

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Terence

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Quayle, Dan

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lord Acton

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blum, Leon

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

James, William

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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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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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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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

39.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

40.

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

41.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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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