Motivational Quotes

Freedom

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Freedom

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Byron, Lord

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Bellin, Gita

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Pericles

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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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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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

Malcolm X

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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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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

21.

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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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

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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Drummond, William

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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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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Epictetus

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brown, Norman O.

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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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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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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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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe