Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ewer, W. N.

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Adams, John

10.

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

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

May, Rollo

13.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Drummond, William

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

17.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Bhagavad Gita

19.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

20.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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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.

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

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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Mckern, Leo

32.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

33.

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

Albert Einstein

34.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

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

Reagan, Ronald

38.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

40.

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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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

42.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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.