Freedom Quotes By Shayan e Shayari

Freedom means "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants." Freedom gives you the direction of your life.

Shayan e Shayari is providing you with these inspirational freedom quotes that will help you to make your own choices and be free. 

Take a look at the following freedom quotes that will boost your courage.



1. "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

― Bob Dylan

2. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

― Viktor E. Frankl

3. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

― Charlotte Brontë

4. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

― Mahatma Gandhi

5. "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

―  Kahlil Gibran

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

― George Washington

7. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed."

―  Martin Luther King Jr.

8. "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

― Albert Camus

9. "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

― Virginia Woolf

10. "From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. "Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

― Herbert Hoover

12. "For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

― Albert Einstein

13. "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."

― Nelson Mandela

14. "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

― George Washington

15. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

― Coco Chanel

16. "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

― Aung San Suu Kyi

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

― Epictetus

18. "Freedom lies in being bold."

― Robert Frost

19. "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."

― Ronald Reagan

20. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



21. "War is peace.
         Freedom is slavery.
         Ignorance is strength."

― George Orwell, 1984

22. "May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

― Peter Marshall

23. "Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink, you want more."

― Maya Angelou

24. "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

― William Faulkner

25. "You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

― Malcolm X

26. "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

― Pope John Paul II

27. "Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."

― John Green

28. "Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."

― Ayn Rand

29. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of the print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

30. "Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

― Eleanor Roosevelt

31. "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

― Denis Diderot

32. "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

― Jim MORRISON

32. "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

33. "No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free."

― Buddha

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

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

35. "Freedom cannot be bestowed. It must be achieved."

― Elbert Hubbard

36. "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, Rita Hayworth, and Shawshank Redemption

37. "This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith." 

― Lyndon B. Johnson

38. "For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. "What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free, and own no superior?

― Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

40. "Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."

― Friedrich Nietzsche




41 "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

― Jean-Paul Sartre

42. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

― Søren Kierkegaard

43. "I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."

― Theodore Roosevelt

44. "No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

― Alice Walker

45. "As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly." 

― Amelia Earhart

46. "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

47. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

― George Orwell

48. "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

49. "Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly."

― attributed to John Lennon

50. "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

― Daniel J. Boorstin

51. "Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people."

― Barack Obama

52. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

― Thomas Jefferson

53. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

― John F. Kennedy

54. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

― Benjamin Franklin

55. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

― John F. Kennedy

56. "The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea—and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things."

― Condoleezza Rice

57. "Freedom is never given. It is won."

― A. Philip Randolph

58. "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

― Samuel Adams

59. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

― Jim Morrison

60. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."

― Abraham Lincoln



61. "I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

― Charlotte Brontë

62. "Freedom is like a bag of sand. If there is a hole anywhere in the bag, all the sand will run out. If any group of our people is denied their rights, sooner or later all groups stand to lose their rights. All the freedom will run out."

― Robert K. Patterson

63. "I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."

― Wendell Willkie

64. "Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads, and chokes out tyranny."

― Trent Lott

65. "True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right."

― Brigham Young

66. "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

― Pericles

67. "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. 

― Karl Marx

68. "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

― Søren Kierkegaard

69. "In every country where man is free to think and to speak, the difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene."

― Thomas Jefferson

70. "Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

― Hans Christian Andersen

71. "The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage."

― Thucydides

72. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."

― George W. Bush

73. "Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

― Bob Marley

74. "Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self."

― Max Stirner

75. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

― George Orwell

76. "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

― Mark Twain

77. "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

― Toni Morrison

78. "What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

79. "May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

― Peter Marshall

80. "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

― Hunter S. Thompson



81. "Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."

― Thomas Jefferson

82. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

― David Foster Wallace

83. "Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."

― Vernon Howard

84. "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

― Thomas Paine

85. "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it."

― John Stuart Mill

86. "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 87. "To enjoy the freedom we have to control ourselves."

― Virginia Woolf

88. "Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."

― Coretta Scott King

89. "If the business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future ... for America is the product of our freedoms."

― E. F. Hutton

90. "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."

― Thomas Sowell

91. "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." 

― Simone de Beauvoir

92. "Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it."

― Albert Einstein

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

― Frank Herbert

94. "Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man."

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. "Responsibility is the price of freedom."

― Elbert Hubbard

96. "The work of art is a scream of freedom. Christo
“Freedom, in general, may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

― Bertrand Russell

97. "Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

― Moshe Dayan

98. "We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."

― William Glasser

99. "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

― James Baldwin

100. "There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated." 

― Scott Lynch



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