Quotes with free-wills

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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • James Madison Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Mario Puzo Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Will Durant Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Aleister Crowley Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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