Motivational Quotes

Freedom

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

- Morgan, Robin

Best Quotes about Freedom

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Clinton, Bill

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dass, Ram

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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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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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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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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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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

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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Orwell, George

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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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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 basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Washington, George

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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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Epictetus

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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.

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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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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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

44.

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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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.