F Quotes
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“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Freedom is meant for all, but earned by those who are willing to rise above the darkness of fear and indignity...”
Source: Honourable Defection
“Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.”
“Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.”
“Freedom is more about knowing your boundaries than to have no boundaries at all.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept; it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Freedom is more than just a willingness to live; it is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing America as our "heart and home." Uniting around a common good will help bring us together in true happiness into the future.”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.”
Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism
“Freedom is my soul-spirit set free from any chains.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.”
Source: The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered
“Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.”
“Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.”
Source: Tristes Tropiques
“Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.”
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.”
“Freedom is never free.”
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
“Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.”
“Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.”
“Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'”
“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
“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.”
Source: A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982
“Freedom is never very safe.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“Freedom is no colonizer's heirloom. Earth is not a zionist hand-me-down.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.”
Source: The Inland Island
“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.”
“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.”
Source: The Heart of Man
“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
Source: The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher
“Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.”
“Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day”
“Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.”
“Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.”
“Freedom is not a license for chaos.”
“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
“Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.”
“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.”
“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.”
Source: The fall
“Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.”
Source: That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary
“Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.”
“Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.”
“Freedom is not an achievement but an opportunity.”
“Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.”
Source: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland
“Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.”
Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989
“Freedom is not an endless sea of choices, but an acceptance, embrace even, of both the nature and the grace at the core of our being and our becoming.”
Source: Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”
“Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs”
“Freedom is not answering questions.”
Source: A Book of Chrissyisms