Free Quotes

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Thought is free.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

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

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

What you get free costs too much.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

No one who lives in error is free.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

You can only be free if I am free.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

No man may make another free.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.