Free Quotes

"Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps"

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free"

Erich Maria Remarque, Writer

"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"I believe in the power of democracy. We need to work together to build a democratic and free society"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman"

John Norman, Writer

"That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul"

Billy Crystal, Comedian

"The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents"

Will McDonough, Writer

"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party"

Kool Moe Dee, Musician

"We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press"

Mike Rogers

"India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Free is the best. Anything free is good"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression"

Robbie Coltraine, Actor

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations"

Pietro Mascagni, Composer

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

"I think drug movies free the director to make intense films"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves"

Jeff Tweedy, Musician

"Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

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