Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

- Sevareid, Eric

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

11.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

12.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

13.

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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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Mckern, Leo

15.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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

May, Rollo

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

20.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stone, W. Clement

23.

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

24.

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

Mandela, Nelson

25.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Lumsden, Marshall

28.

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

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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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

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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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

Luther, Martin

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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

Epictetus

38.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Thomas Jefferson

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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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

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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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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd