Free Man Quotes - Page 4

• 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 real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Men, Ego

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.127, A&C Black

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• Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Scotland

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• Running should be free, man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Men, Should

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• The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

  Anais Nin

  Fear, Men, People

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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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• 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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• Free men have arms; slaves do not.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Arms, Slave

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• No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Presidential, Dollars

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Religious, Mean, Heart

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• Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

  Daniel O'Connell

  Men, Gentleman, Alternatives

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• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  Barbara Deming

  Men, Brotherhood, Being Free

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Men, Rights, Needs

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• The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather 'What can I and my compatriots do through government' to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom?

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Men, Goal

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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• The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

  William McKinley

  Men, Long, Ignorant

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

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• Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

  Che Guevara

  Children, Men, Rights

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.114, Ocean Press

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• Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Practice, Space

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• There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Men

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• Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Hero, Mean

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

  William Allen White

  Fighting, Men, America

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• I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Men, Soul, Slave

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• Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Grateful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.221, Commodius Vicus

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• The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.

  Ernst Junger

  Dream, Army, Sacrifice

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• America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, America

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

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