F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".”
“Freedom, salvation, secularism, humanity all these are merely myriad names of the same realization - the realization of oneness.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.”
“Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.”
“Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be heartbreaking.”
“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him. Our landlady and the delicatessen man are our mourners, and we leave nothing behind us but a frock-coat and a fiddle, or an easel, or a typewriter, or whatever tool we got our living by. All we have ever managed to do is to pay our rent, the exorbitant rent that one has to pay for a few square feet of space near the heart of things. We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.”
Source: O Pioneers!
“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.”
Source: O Pioneers
“Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.”
“Freedom sounds phenomenal to the preoccupied young. But when one is an adult and has “free days” there is simply not much to do. Even in Los Angeles, where everything was. There was an unspoken spell of solitude cast on the city. Once one has been to the main parts of town, and had their fair share at the beach, Los Angeles turned unbreathably lonely. The biggest risks took place in grocery stores where a quiet shopper chose to switch to multi-grain bread after two years on sourdough. One could use their afternoons to create art— maybe writing a poem or painting a picture—all of which pass time but are isolating activities in and of themselves. The child begs for freedom and the adult wants to be told what to do.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Freedom starts when you are proud of who you are. As long you are not embracing and expressing who you are or your identity . You will never be free, wherever you are or no matter what you do.”
“Freedom starts when you stop trading time and start trading ideas.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.”
“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”
“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations
“Freedom teeters on a knife’s edge; these are truly dangerous times.”
“Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.”
“Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.”
“Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt; in other words, adopts murder and violence.”
Source: The Rebel
“Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which the more one has, the less another can enjoy. Freedom considered as a matter of individual self-determination or self-sovereignty is reduced to a solipsistic phenomenon. Rather, as a world-building practice, freedom is a social--and hence necessarily political--endeavor.”
Source: The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
“Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.”
“Freedom to breastfeed without shame is just as sacred as freedom to pray.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Freedom to choose not to have child is just as respectable as motherhood.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”
“Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”
“Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.”
“Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.”
Source: Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
“Freedom to practice one's own religion, doesn't mean belittling other religions.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.”
“Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.”
“Freedom to reject is the only freedom.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.”
“Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.”
“Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.”
“Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you're going to have to stand up for stuff you don't believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don't, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person's obscenity is another person's art.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.”
“Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.”
“Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.”
“Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.”
“Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up close but from the outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how much space you had. On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The place was big in its smallness. Here, she was free of her master but slunk around a warren so tiny she couldn't stand.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.”
“Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.”
“Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.”
“Freedom was my daring travel companion on the thrilling ride of life.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.”
Source: Report to Greco