Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

Best Quotes about Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Christopher

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

Durant, William J.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Madhava, Sri

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

10.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

12.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Washington, George

14.

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

15.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

16.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

17.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

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

Malcolm X

20.

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

Hamilton, Edith

21.

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

22.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

24.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

27.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

28.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

30.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

31.

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

32.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Doren, Mark Van

33.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

34.

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

Mckern, Leo

35.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

39.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

40.

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

Scott, Hazel

41.

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

42.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

45.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

46.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

48.

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

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Bolingbroke, Henry