Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Orwell, George

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Silesius, Angelus

19.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

20.

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

May, Rollo

21.

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

22.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

23.

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

Mandela, Nelson

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

27.

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

Adams, John

28.

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.

29.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

30.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

32.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

36.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

39.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

40.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

41.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

42.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

43.

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

Terence

44.

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

Horace

45.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

46.

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.

47.

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

Milton, John

48.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

49.

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

50.

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