To Be Free Quotes

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I am STILL better than you. Because I AM drug free, I AM alcohol free, and I’m straightedge.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

The greatest luxury is being free.

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

Free Tibet before free trade.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

All films are born free and equal.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.