Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

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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

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

Mckern, Leo

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Epictetus

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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

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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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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Voltaire

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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

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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)