Freedom quotes
Freedom quotes by Francois Voltaire
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Inspiration, Human rights, Principles, Great, Foolishness, ChoiceFreedom quotes by Abraham Linkoln
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Slavery, People
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,
The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
And the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
To make this life a wonderful adventure
Let us use that power!
Let us all unite! Charles Chaplin
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,
The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
And the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
To make this life a wonderful adventure
Let us use that power!
Let us all unite! Charles Chaplin
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Inspiration, Humanity, Life, Democracy, Liberty)Freedom quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
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Mistakes, Slavery
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
Freedom quotes by Stephen Hawking
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Intellect, Search, ChoiceFreedom quotes by Victor Hugo
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Challenge, Hardships
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Freedom quotes by Richard Bach
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Love, Happiness, Independence, Integrity, Choice, Advice, Shame, Fear
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Freedom quotes by Albert Camus
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Culture, Society, Media, Press, Inspiration, Integrity, Death, Reason
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Freedom quotes by Jim Morrison
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Fear
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Freedom quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
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Change, Struggle
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Stephen King
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Life, Letting-go)Freedom quotes by Kirk Douglas
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Professionalism, Criticism, Advice, Wishes, CharacterFreedom quotes by Charles Dickens
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Willpower, Choice, Life, Change
I wear the chain I forged in life... I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Freedom quotes by Nelson Mandela
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Business, Money, Success, Human rights, Respect, Revolution, Struggle, Africa, Nation, Contribution
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.
Carlos Castaneda
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Inspiration)
We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.
Jon Voight
Jon Voight
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Politics, Decay, America, Socialism)Freedom quotes by Ronald Reagan
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Liberty, Memory, Pride, Religion
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Freedom quotes by Bob Marley
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Life, Death, Revolution, Challenge, Lifesense, Rules, Search, Vocation, Choice, Inspiration
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.
The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! Is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! To respect the shepherd
Is he who laugh last, children! Is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! To respect the shepherd
Freedom quotes by Paulo Coelho
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Memories, Repression, Dictatorship, Life, Posession
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Freedom quotes by Umberto Eco
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Religion, Equality, Civilization, Islam, Capitalism, Liberty, Creativity, Mediocrity, Individuality
We are a pluralist civilization because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Freedom quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
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Loss, Materialism, PosessionFreedom quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Life, People, Wishes, Philosophy, Feminism, Existantialism, Men, Work, Liberty, Choice
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite.
And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living. A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied.
And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom.
I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.
And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living. A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied.
And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom.
I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.
Freedom quotes by Olivier Martinez
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Language, Celebrity, FameFreedom quotes by Muhammad Ali
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Inspiration, Self-determination, Vocation, Choice, Racism, Slavery
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
Freedom quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Society, Authority, Worship, People, Anxiety
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...
Leo Tolstoy
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Prejudice, Independence, Thinking)Freedom quotes by Roald Dahl
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Writers, Life, Imagination, Fantasy, EscapismFreedom quotes by Haruki Murakami
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Trust, Youth, Time, Money, Opportunity, Finance
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
Freedom quotes by Walt Whitman
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Life, Independence, Individuality, Law, Liberty, AnarchismFreedom quotes by Franz Kafka
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Existantialism, Responsibility
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
Truman Capote
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Self, Introspection)Freedom quotes by Jack Kerouac
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Comfort, Sleep, Life, HappinessFreedom quotes by Maya Angelou
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Love, Bravery, Age, Experience, Unity
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Freedom quotes by Adolf Hitler
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Motivation, Willpower, Weapons, Politics, Control, Human rights, Dictatorship
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
Freedom quotes by Pietro Aretino
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Sex, Prejudice, Evil, Style, Individuality, Happiness, Independence
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we.
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.