Motivational Quotes

Freedom

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Freedom

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Terence

The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

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

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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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Whitman, Walt

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

Sieyes, Abbe

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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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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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

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

Pike, Albert

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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

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

Drummond, William

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

James, William

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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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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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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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True obedience is true freedom.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Washington, George