Free Quotes
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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
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Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
Nancy Kline
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Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poorOnly as free as a padlocked prison doorOnly as strong as our love for this landOnly as tall as we stand!
Phil Ochs
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If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would find something else to love.
Elin Hilderbrand
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The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Michelangelo
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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
Abraham Lincoln
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I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.
Maria Alyokhina
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Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
C. S. Lewis
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I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
Elizabeth Keckley
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
Jeb Bush
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As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.
Kyle Hill
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Wars, factions, and fighting, have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.
Socrates
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I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.
Barry Webster
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My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?
Nnamdi Azikiwe
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There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.
Luca Guadagnino
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
Ed Kowalczyk
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Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
Gautama Buddha
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The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.
Leandra Medine