F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.”
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“Freedom from what?” we ask. How about ourselves, because everything is a distant second after that.”
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“Freedom fuels bold possibilities—ignite yours today.”
“Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.”
“Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.”
“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”
“Freedom guides our actions in powerful ways. I hadn't been so much under the external control of other people as my own rigid belief system. The one that told me to conform to a set of rules. I hadn't even thought through and honestly considered whether it was a good choice or not.”
Source: Mere Sense: A Memoir of Men, Migraine, and the Mysteries of Being Highly Sensitive
“Freedom Had A Price”
Source: The Complete Persepolis
“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“Freedom hands us the canvas—paint it with courage and purpose”
“Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.”
“Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”
Source: Fado
“Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.”
“Freedom has been the quintessential trademark of modernity, the rallying cry of oppressed groups, the glory of democracies, the pride of capitalist economic markets, and the reproof to authoritative regimes. It has been and remains the great accomplishment of modern political institutions.”
Source: Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation
“Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.”
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.”
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
“Freedom has its risks.”
“Freedom has its roots in religion.”
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.”
“Freedom has never been free.”
“Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.”
“Freedom has no history.”
Source: Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening
“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”
“Freedom here has nothing to do with political liberty, or a notion of rights, or the license to say whatever he wished, or the ability to go wherever he chose. It's rather the experience of withdrawing inwardly from the press of the wold, in which he himself was so ambitiously engaged. And in sphering himself in a space apart. For Poggio that experience was what it meant to immerse himself in ancient book. "I am free for reading.”
Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
“Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Freedom in any moment is a product of two things: the autonomy you feel and the support for autonomy that the moment allows.”
Source: Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.”
“Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.”
“Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.”
Source: Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell
“Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.”
“Freedom in faith in God is an amazing wonder.”
“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
Source: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42
“Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.”
Source: Spontaneous Activity in Education
“Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.”
“Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility”
“Freedom In Your Eyes
There’s freedom in your eyes
these colors are wonderful
your heart released to the world
kindness that wants to be heard.
Years wasted seem long ago
now brilliant colors surround you
the bluest sky comes into view
you understand what you must do.
Forget the past no longer there
walk in silence towards the sun
God created a path for you
that will never be undone.”
“Freedom In Your Eyes
There’s freedom in your eyes
these colors are wonderful
your heart released to the world
kindness that wants to be heard.
Years wasted seem long ago
now brilliant colors surround you
the bluest sky comes into view
you understand what you must do.
Forget the past so longer there
walk in silence towards the sun
God created a path for you
that will never be undone.”
“Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker
“Freedom, influence and impact first, expansion second.”