Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The saving man becomes the free man.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Freedom

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Scott, Hazel

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Luther, Martin

10.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Bellin, Gita

15.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

17.

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

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

21.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

May, Rollo

23.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

24.

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

25.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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.

27.

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)

28.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

31.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

32.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

33.

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

Durant, William J.

34.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

36.

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

Brown, Norman O.

37.

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

38.

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

Luxemburg, Rosa

39.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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

41.

For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Silesius, Angelus

45.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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.

47.

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.

48.

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

Thomas Jefferson

49.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Patricia Sampson