F Quotes
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“Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.”
“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
“Freedom is about stopping the past.”
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Freedom is addictive.”
“Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independent of the will and co-action of every other…”
“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
“Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.”
“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.”
“Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”
“Freedom is always wise.”
“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”
“Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.”
“Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.”
“Freedom is an endless meeting.”
Source: Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!
“Freedom is an essential element for the success and progress of humanity, especially freedom from the restricted imprisonment of certain religions. You never can progress by going backward. Some prisoners have no idea that they are in a prison, because they have been swimming in the same rotten pond for thousands of years. They resist any form of freedom because they fear the freshness of the ocean, they fear freedom. They want to make the whole world a prison, where they will feel comfortable.”
“Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.”
“Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!”
“Freedom is an illusion of collective consciousness.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)
“Freedom is an inborn destination.
Freedom is within our DNA.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.”
“Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.”
“freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.”
Source: Absurdistan
“Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly." Freedom says, "Even not to choose is to choose." Freedom says, "So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings." Freedom says, "You're on your own. Deal with it.”
Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Freedom is as, Freedom does, take action.”
“Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.”
“Freedom is avoidance of self imposed constraints and restrictions”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...
“Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.”
“Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.”
“Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.”
“Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.”
“Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.”
“Freedom is Chaos.
It is the absence of structure, logic, control and discipline.
A free person is a chaotic person.
I don't want to be free.
I enjoy my discipline.
I like control.
I like having a goal.
I find it soothing to work hard.
Freedom scares me. There is so little definition to it I wouldn't even know where to start. I don't like freedom. It's a ball of anxiety if you ask me.
When I think of free people, I imagine hippies, alcoholics, drug addicts, homeless people, fat people and unscholarly teenagers.”
“Freedom is choice to follow your own dreams.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Freedom is choosing your own life”
Source: Alice in Borderland
“Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.”
“Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.”
“Freedom is control in your own life.”
“Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.”
“Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.”
“Freedom is doing what’s right—
even when no one’s watching.
That’s governance—
And that’s where a Company Secretary stands.”
“Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.”
“Freedom is essential for any system to work, and love is the foundation for freedom.”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO