Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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.

Best Quotes about Freedom

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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.

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

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

Blum, Leon

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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.

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albert Einstein

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Drummond, William

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Mckern, Leo

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

Orwell, George

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Epictetus

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

Byron, Lord

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Adams, John

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Clinton, Bill

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

James, William

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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.