Quotes with free-wills

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  • Anita Brookner There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Charles Kingsley There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Alan Perlis There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • William Penn There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Horace Greeley There is no bigotry like that of ''free thought'' run to seed.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Milton Friedman There's no such thing as a free lunch.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Hazel Scott There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
    Hazel Scott
     
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  • Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Oscar Wilde Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Barnett Newman This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Buddha Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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