Motivational Quotes

Freedom

A hungry man is not a free man.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Pericles

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Cobden, Richard

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There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Persius

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Reagan, Ronald

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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Covey, Stephen R.

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lord Acton

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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

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

William Hazlitt

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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.

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

Epictetus

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

Mckern, Leo

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

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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

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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.

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

Drummond, William

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

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

Lumsden, Marshall

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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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.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Orwell, George

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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.

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Sevareid, Eric

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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