To Be Free Quotes

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

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

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

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I'm gluten free, but that still allows me some chocolate!

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

All men are born equally free.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.