Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Terence

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Blum, Leon

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

May, Rollo

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

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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

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Milton, John

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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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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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Pascal, Blaise

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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

Dass, Ram

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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

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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 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

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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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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa