Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Sieyes, Abbe

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hill, Christopher

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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

Horace

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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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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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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

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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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.

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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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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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

Ewer, W. N.

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh