Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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

Durant, William J.

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

10.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

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

Drummond, William

12.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

13.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

14.

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

May, Rollo

15.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

17.

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

18.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

19.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

O'Keeffe, Georgia

22.

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

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

25.

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

26.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Clinton, Bill

30.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

31.

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

32.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

39.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

40.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

41.

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

42.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

43.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

44.

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.

45.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

46.

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

47.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

48.

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

49.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

50.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.