Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Sahib, The Siri Singh

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Bellin, Gita

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Walker, Alice

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Horace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

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

Orwell, George

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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

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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

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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.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Dass, Ram

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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

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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Hamilton, Edith

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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Dyer, Wayne

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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