Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Freedom

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

11.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Voltaire

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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

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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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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Durant, William J.

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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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

Patricia Sampson

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

Stone, W. Clement

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ewer, W. N.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Diderot, Denis

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

Madriaga, Salvador De

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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Scott, Hazel

46.

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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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