F Quotes
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“Freedom was never a gate to be opened, but a fire you set with your own hands even if you burn."
Author: Mahmoud Tarek
Book: City of Immortality”
Source: City of Immortality
“Freedom was precious, and he had nothing to defend it with.”
Source: I Am David
“Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.”
“Freedom was the only thing I had never known, and it was time to walk with abandon, immune from the battalions, answerable only to myself.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“Freedom was the price of privacy.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it.”
Source: Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
“Freedom wasn’t handed to me. I took it, stubbornly.”
“Freedom wasn't only the right to say and write things without fear of repercussions. It was also the ability to determine your own relationship to your country, your identity, and your past.”
Source: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
“Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.”
“Freedom will always call men to itself regardless of the degree to which any tyrannical form of government might demand that men submit to its preferred brand of tyranny.”
“Freedom will be within grasp when you take a chance and dance.”
“Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.”
Source: Being-in-dreaming
“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“Freedom will finally be within grasp when you experience heaven on earth with a dance.”
“Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.”
Source: Free Your Mind
“Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.”
“Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.”
“Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.”
“Freedom without enough financial resource is dull.”
“Freedom without limits is just a word.”
“Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal”
Source: Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
“Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.”
Source: Chomsky on Miseducation
“Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom.”
Source: A HOUSE of PRAYER
“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”
Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.”
Source: Fell
“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.”
“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.”
“Freedom without structure is its own slavery.”
Source: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
“Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.”
“Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.”
“Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.”
“Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.”
“Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.”
“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you.”
Source: Chance of a Lifetime
“Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.”
Source: Discourses and Selected Writings
“Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.”
“Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.”
“Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.”
“Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.”
Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn
“Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.”
Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
“Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
“Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.”
“Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.”
“Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.”