Freedom Quotes & Thoughts

Freedom of Thought

1. "The freedom of thought is the most prized of all human rights." – Salman Rushdie
2. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high, there is freedom." – Rabindranath Tagore
4. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." – George Orwell
5. "Only free minds can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated." – Nelson Mandela
6. "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." – James Madison
7. "You can cage the singer but not the song." – Harry Belafonte
8. "No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free." – Buddha
9. "Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from." – Vernon Howard
10. "Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire." – Epictetus

Freedom and Responsibility

1. "Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." – Friedrich Nietzsche
2. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." – George Bernard Shaw
3. "With freedom comes responsibility, and I can handle it." – Jonah Goldberg
4. "The price of freedom is responsibility, but it’s a bargain, because freedom is priceless." – Dan Savage
5. "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." – Pope John Paul II
6. "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." – Coco Chanel
8. "Responsibility is the price of freedom." – Elbert Hubbard
9. "Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have." – Pat Summitt
10. "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." – Nelson Mandela

Political Freedom

1. "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." – Thomas Paine
2. "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." – George Washington
3. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. "The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." – John F. Kennedy
5. "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." – Thucydides
6. "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." – Aristotle
7. "For to be free is not to merely cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." – Nelson Mandela
8. "The contest, for ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." – Daniel Webster
9. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." – Martin Luther King Jr.
10. "A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." – James Madison

Freedom and Imagination

1. "Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do." – G.K. Chesterton
2. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." – Albert Einstein
3. "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." – Albert Einstein
4. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. "Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
6. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." – Albert Einstein
7. "The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size." – Albert Einstein
8. "Freedom lies in being bold." – Robert Frost
9. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." – Albert Einstein
10. "To be creative means you have to step into the unknown and have a willingness to be led by your ideas and curiosity." – Elaina Marie

Personal Freedom

1. "Freedom is a state of mind, and it is the liberty of the soul." – Bob Marley
2. "Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." – Aung San Suu Kyi
4. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." – Mahatma Gandhi
5. "To find yourself, think for yourself." – Socrates
6. "True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline." – Mortimer J. Adler
7. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." – Charlotte Brontë
8. "Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." – Moshe Dayan
9. "To enjoy personal freedom we have to be free from within." – Stephen Richards
10. "The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself." – Saul Alinsky

Social Freedom

1. "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." – Daniel J. Boorstin
2. "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. "The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads." – H.L. Mencken
4. "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." – Albert Camus
5. "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." – William Faulkner
6. "Liberty is the breath of life to nations." – George Bernard Shaw
7. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." – Abraham Lincoln
8. "True freedom is the moment when you lose your fear of anything." – Neale Donald Walsch
9. "He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. "Freedom is found when we let go of who we're supposed to be and embrace who we really are." – Anonymous

Freedom in Literature

1. "In any combat between a power that relies on its own strength and a power that relies on good will and trust, the latter can only win." – Milan Kundera
2. "Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King
3. "Freedom is a universal concept, but its interpretation varies according to cultures and individuals." – Albert Camus
4. "The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." – Napoleon Bonaparte
5. "The more you care, the stronger you can be." – Jim Rohn
6. "Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today." – Mark Manson
7. "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." – Barbara Tuchman
8. "The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech." – Voltaire
9. "Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life." – Sidney Sheldon
10. "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." – Anais Nin

Freedom and Art

1. "Art is the most beautiful of all lies." – Claude Debussy
2. "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." – Banksy
3. "The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them." – Anton Chekhov
4. "The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate—it is life, intensified, brilliant life." – Alain Arias-Misson
5. "Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom." – John F. Kennedy
6. "The world is but a canvas to our imagination." – Henry David Thoreau
7. "Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line." – Anonymous
8. "The object of art is to give life a shape." – William Shakespeare
9. "Great art picks up where nature ends." – Marc Chagall
10. "Freedom without limits is just a word." – Norman Rockwell

Freedom and Love

1. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
2. "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." – Henry Miller
3. "Where there is love there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
4. "The greatest freedom of all is the freedom from fear." – Jean-Paul Sartre
5. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself." – Honore de Balzac
6. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle
7. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." – Voltaire
8. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." – George Sand
9. "To live without hope is to cease to live." – Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. "Love liberates. It doesn't bind." – Maya Angelou