Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Washington, George

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Greer, Germaine

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

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

Dass, Ram

10.

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.

11.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

14.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

Pericles

16.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

18.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

21.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

22.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

23.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

24.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

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

26.

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

Bellin, Gita

27.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

28.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

29.

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

30.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

31.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

32.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

33.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

34.

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

Clinton, Bill

35.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

38.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Herbert, Frank

42.

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.

43.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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