Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Stone, W. Clement

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Dass, Ram

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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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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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Drummond, William

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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.

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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 first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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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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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Persius

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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

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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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.

Henry, Patrick

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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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