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Letter "F" » Freedom
«The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Learning,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
attain
«The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
Equality,
Freedom,
Men
| Keywords:
autonomy, mislead, misleading, seeking
«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people»
Author: Phil Gramm
| About:
America and Americans,
Freedom
| Keywords:
American elder, American System, ordinary people, Plain People, The Genius
«The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| About:
Freedom,
Value
| Keywords:
bombproof, free man, frightened, inventions, The Wall
«The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness,
Independence
| Keywords:
cheerfully, dependent, meet, Meet The, morrow, morrows
«The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Power,
Speech,
Thinking,
Writing
| Keywords:
arm, devour, jawed, jaws, open to, stretched, stretched out, writing arm
«The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom»
«The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, resolves, slave, slavery
«The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness
| Keywords:
declare, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, derived, higher degree, impressions, intense, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, union
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