Free Quotes - page 3

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. (E. M. Forster)
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. View quote
George Washington
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. View quote
George Santayana
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. (Muhammad Ali)
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. View quote
Václav Havel
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. View quote
Rosa Parks
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression 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. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. View quote
Michelangelo
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. View quote
Max Stirner
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. (Jean Cocteau)
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. View quote
Franz Kafka
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. View quote
Abdul Kalam
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. View quote
John F. Kennedy