Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Freedom

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

Lord Acton

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

Blum, Leon

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.

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

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

James, William

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

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Maistre, Joseph De

Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye,that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!

Lovell, Marie

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

10.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

12.

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

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

Drummond, William

14.

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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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Rushdie, Salman

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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.

20.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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

Sevareid, Eric

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

Washington, George

24.

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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Brown, Norman O.

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Orr, Lord Boyd

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Reagan, Ronald

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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