Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

- Persius

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Luther, Martin

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Patricia Sampson

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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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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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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Horace

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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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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Drummond, William

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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

33.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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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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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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

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Mandela, Nelson

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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)

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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 secret of freedom, courage.