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Free Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
- Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
- Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;…
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is…
- What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is…
- Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.
- The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist…
- They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever…
- You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people…
- Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention…
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
- It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
- Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
- According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not…
- I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and…
- Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If…
More Free Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine