Free Quotes

"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"

"I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free"

"Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus"

Lactantius, Author

"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses"

James Baldwin, Educator

"Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life"

Jacques Chirac, Statesman

"We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism"

Jack Reed, Politician

"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion"

William J. Brennan, Judge

"The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy"

Tommy Franks, Soldier

"Life is never free of contradictions"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill"

Theodore White, Journalist

"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone"

Milos Forman, Director

"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books"

Michael Connelly, Author

"I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence"

Earl Browder, Activist

"Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system"

Lars Ulrich, Musician

"My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people"

Noah Webster, Writer

"We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free"

Walter Crane, Artist

"Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?"

James Rouse, Businessman

"To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot"

Lane Kirkland, Activist

"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech"

Charles Bradlaugh, Activist

"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"Unfortunately, I don't have much free time"

Andy Lau, Actor

"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing"

James Broughton, Director

"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn"

Tim Cahill, Athlete

"Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done"

Patrick Warburton, Actor

"Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for Free Willy. Or maybe I will"

Michael Madsen, Actor

"And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem"

Mark Strand, Poet

"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for"

Hector Elizondo, Actor

"I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes"

Julie Bowen, Actress

"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary"

Ken Follett, Author

"On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

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