Quotes with free-wills

Quotes 581 till 600 of 604.

  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Adrian Cronauer Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Robert Frost Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • John Adams Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Richard Nixon Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bob Ney Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Richard Bach You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Clarence Darrow You can only be free if I am free.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Toni Morrison You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Carl Lewis You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Aaron Hill You talk no more of that gay nation now,
    Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
    Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
    Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
    Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
    Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
    Source: Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Auberon Herbert You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Epicurus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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