Motivational Quotes

Freedom

He who is brave is free.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Persius

14.

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.

15.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

19.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

26.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

27.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

28.

Only law can give us freedom.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Dass, Ram

30.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

31.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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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

33.

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

Durant, William J.

34.

This is America. You can do anything here.

Turner, Robert E.

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

Stone, I. F.

36.

It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

39.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Byron, Lord

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Camus, Albert

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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