Motivational Quotes

Freedom

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

- Terence

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Drummond, William

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lincoln, Abraham

He who is brave is free.

Seneca

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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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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Barton, Bruce

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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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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.

Hague, Frank

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Madonna

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

Silesius, Angelus

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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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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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton