Motivational Quotes

Freedom

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

- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Best Quotes about Freedom

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

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

Byron, Lord

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

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

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Greer, Germaine

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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

Mckern, Leo

17.

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

Durant, William J.

18.

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

Washington, George

19.

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.

20.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

21.

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

Orwell, George

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

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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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

25.

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

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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

27.

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

28.

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

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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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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

31.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

37.

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

Aristotle

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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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.

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Terence

43.

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

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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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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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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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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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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides