Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sang Kyu Shin

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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

Dass, Ram

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

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

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

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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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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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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 knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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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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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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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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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 always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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

Scott, Hazel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Orwell, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Hanson, Virginia

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

James, William

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Clinton, Bill

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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

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John