F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Freedom lies in examining the choices available to us and examining the consequences of those choices. The more choices you have, the less you’re going to feel like a victim.”
“Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.”
Source: Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
“Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.”
Source: Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
“Freedom Lives On The Other Side Of The Emotion.”
“Freedom lost to any regime, be it communist or liberal, steals the very breath of democracy”
“Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.”
“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.”
Source: You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
Source: You learn by living
“Freedom makes breathing easier; it begets an atmosphere governed by joy, not oppression. Freedom is a measure of breathability.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
“Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.”
Source: The Unicorn
“Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.”
“Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.”
Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“Freedom mean something different to me. The search, that is freedom.”
Source: River Sing Me Home
“Freedom means being goofy, silly, and having fun on social media. Freedom means taking a break from Instagram without people calling 911. Freedom means being able to make mistakes, and learning from them. Freedom means I don’t have to perform for anyone—onstage or offstage. Freedom means that I get to be as beautifully imperfect as everyone else. And freedom means the ability, and the right, to search for joy, in my own way, on my own terms.”
Source: The Woman in Me
“Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.”
Source: Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman
“Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (…) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves to their group. For, if they are not slaves to their own group, they will assuredly become slaves to some other.”
“Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”
“Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.”
“Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.”
“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”
“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”
“Freedom means the possibility to choose from a set of unfree options.”
Source: ESSE: Theorems on Morality and Power
“Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.”
“Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.”
Source: Hard Choices
“Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.”
Source: Hard Choices
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.”
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
“Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.”
“Freedom meant one thing to him—home.
But they wouldn't let him go home.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.”
“Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.”
“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.”
“Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.”
“Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
“Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.”
“Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.”
“Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.”
“Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”
“Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.”
“Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.”
“Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.”
“Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.”
“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.”
Source: Madness and Civilization
“Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.”
“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.”