Free Quotes

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

~ Liu Xiaobo

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

~ George Mason

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

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

~ Sebastian Thrun

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

~ Stanley Druckenmiller

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

~ Nina Easton

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

~ Martin Luther King

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

~ Saul Alinsky

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

~ A. Philip Randolph

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

~ W. C. Fields

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

~ Robert Toombs

All men are born equally free.

~ Salmon P. Chase

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

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

~ John Knowles

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

~ Yoko Ono

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

~ Claude Debussy

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

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

~ Michel Foucault

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

~ Paul Klee

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

~ Twiggy

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

~ Aeschylus

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

~ Saul Bellow

Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

~ Michael Hayden

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

~ George Woodcock

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

What you get free costs too much.

~ Jean Anouilh

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

~ Frank Church

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

~ Eli Wallach

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

~ Ali Khamenei

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

~ Ameen Rihani

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

~ Antonio Banderas

If food were free, why work?

~ Douglas Horton

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

~ Elliott Abrams

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

~ Mike Pence

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

~ Ernest Istook