Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Herbert, Frank

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

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

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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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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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Epictetus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

La Follette, Suzanne

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

Epictetus

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dass, Ram

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

27.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 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

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin