Free Quotes

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

Ali Smith
- Up
- Family
- Alone
I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

David Blunkett
- Free

We also know that our support for civil society is not just about what we’re against, but also what we’re for. Because we’ve noticed that governments that are more responsive and effective are typically governments where the people are free to assemble, and speak their minds, and petition their leaders, and hold us accountable.

Barack Obama
- People
- Society
- Support
Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.

Margo Jefferson
- Up
- Thinking
- Real
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

Punit Renjen
- People
- Up
- Great
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson
- Time
- Thinking
- Writing
I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.

Bill Foster
- Good
- Game
- Education
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.

Patrick Gordon
- Up
- Simple
- Own