Free Quotes

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist"

Bono, Musician

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"I call him free who is led solely by reason"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do"

Anais Nin, Author

"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited"

Don Rose, Radio host

"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Either be wholly slaves or wholly free"

John Dryden, Poet

"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"What you get free costs too much"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free"

John Bruton, Politician

"I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty"

James Madison, President

"There's no such thing as a free lunch"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people"

James Madison, President

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