Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Terence

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

Durant, William J.

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

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Madonna

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

11.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

12.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Browne, Harry

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

Sieyes, Abbe

18.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

19.

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

Sevareid, Eric

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

22.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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

Blum, Leon

30.

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

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

35.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

37.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

49.

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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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt