Free Quotes

Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.

Deeyah Khan
- People
- Future
- Picture
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

M. Esther Harding

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Zygmunt Bauman
- World
- Attention
- Rest
When we improvise freely - that is, without a structure - it tends to sound more like 20th century classical music, more like a classical ensemble improvising, as opposed to a free-jazz group, where you're more used to hearing saxophones honking.

John Abercrombie
- Music
- Free
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

Vaclav Klaus
- Nature
- Society
- Science
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Mind
- Learning
- Beginning
A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Bart Gordon
- Free
- Privilege
- License
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti
- Business
- Free
- Free Will