Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Terence

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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)

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Voltaire

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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

Malcolm X

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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

Clinton, Bill

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

Dass, Ram

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lenin

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Quayle, Dan

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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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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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Sevareid, Eric

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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.