Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Terence

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

10.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

12.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

16.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

19.

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

Persius

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

May, Rollo

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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.

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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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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

24.

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

Washington, George

25.

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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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

29.

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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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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

32.

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

Bellin, Gita

33.

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

Mckern, Leo

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

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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

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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 -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

43.

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

Albert Einstein

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton