Motivational Quotes

Freedom

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

- Johnson, Jeremy P.

Best Quotes about Freedom

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

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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 our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

18.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

21.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

28.

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

Dass, Ram

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

31.

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

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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

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

Luther, Martin

35.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

38.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

39.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.