Free Man Quotes

126 quotes by 107 authors

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,… — Pietro Aretino
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. — Aeschylus
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. — Wernher von Braun
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
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body,… — John Henrik Clarke
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. — Johnnie Cochran
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. — Alan Paton
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,… — Bernard Iddings Bell
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. — William Osler
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do… — Thomas Hobbes
On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free… — Jim Davidson
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free… — Mirabeau B. Lamar
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. — Leon Blum
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this… — Bertrand Russell
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same… — Chief Joseph
Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. — Erich Fromm
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza

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