Free Man Quotes - Page 3

• A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Race, Slave

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• Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men

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• I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.

  Micah True

  Running, Party, Men

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• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Men, Light

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• Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Dream, Men

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Men, History

  Address at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 09, 1956.

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• I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Men, Looks

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• Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

  Toni Morrison

  Stupid, Eye, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Feb 23, 2015

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• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Freedom, Men

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• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

  James Buchanan

  Patriotic, Men, Presidential

  James Buchanan (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.309, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

  Maxim Gorky

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Being Free

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• Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Destiny, Waiting

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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

  George Mason

  Passion, Men, Mind

  George Mason's letter to the Committee of Merchants in London, June 6, 1766.

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• If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

  George Orwell

  Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• The free man never thinks of escape.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  W. H. Auden

  Healing, Heart, Night

  Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

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• Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fashion, Atheist, Freedom

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• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

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• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  George Washington

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

  Patrick Süskind

  Men, Arms, Carriages

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• As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

  Rick Perry

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Men

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Worry, Style

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