Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Freedom

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.

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

Sieyes, Abbe

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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

Mandela, Nelson

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

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

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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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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Byron, Lord

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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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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.