Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Henry, Patrick

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

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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

Scott, Hazel

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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

Orwell, George

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

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Mckern, Leo

10.

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

Macaulay, Rose

11.

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Hanson, Virginia

12.

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

13.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

14.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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

17.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Adams, John

21.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

23.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

26.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

27.

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

28.

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

Albert Einstein

29.

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

30.

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

Sang Kyu Shin

32.

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

Terence

33.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

34.

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

Epictetus

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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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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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Yeltsin, Boris

42.

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

Bellin, Gita

43.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Pike, Albert

45.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Friedman, Milton

46.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Kempis, Thomas

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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

Washington, George

50.

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.