Free Quotes

"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow"

Corliss Lamont, Philosopher

"The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society"

Roy Hattersley, Statesman

"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs"

William Bligh, Soldier

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy"

Tom Waits, Musician

"The intuition of free will gives us the truth"

Corliss Lamont, Philosopher

"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will"

John Acton, Historian

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"There is no must in art because art is free"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way"

David Korten, Activist

"I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents"

Earl Weaver, Coach

"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free"

Wendell Berry, Poet

"I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free"

George McGovern, Politician

"There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male"

Hazel Scott, Musician

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