Top 100 Free Man Quotes
#1. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Baruch Spinoza
#2. Above all, the free man is superior to the man who has to serve another.
Franz Kafka
#3. Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
Margaret Fuller
#4. He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.
Evan Meekins
#5. There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#6. A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.
Epicurus
#7. A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.
Jeff Cooper
#8. There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
John Ray
#9. I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.
Todd McFarlane
#11. The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
Barbara Deming
#12. - a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
Trevor Noah
#13. A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
Halldor Laxness
#14. One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.
Chuck Zito
#16. A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
Milton Friedman
#17. Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
Robert H. Jackson
#18. I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man."
"Don't we all. Look. Be what you want
white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up - quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass."
Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray
Toni Morrison
#19. So I am about to be a free man again, to wander where I please.
I find the prospect nauseating.
I think that tonight I will hand Howard W, Campbell, Jr., for crimes against himself.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.
Erich Fromm
#21. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza
#23. The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
Friedrich Schiller
#24. This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
Frederick William Robertson
#25. I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
#26. 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 man desires.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
#27. Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Chief Joseph
#28. A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.
Silvio Berlusconi
#30. The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
G. Campbell Morgan
#31. By defending my bubble bath, he signaled the end of his reign as a free man. Damn
R.J. Blain
#32. Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
Gore Vidal
#33. The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch Spinoza
#34. The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.
Emma Goldman
#36. 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 always talking about what he may do.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. 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
#38. In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
George Grosz
#39. I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.
Micah True
#40. A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
John Frusciante
#41. Only trees are rooted in land, and there they stay. You should know this, great oak. But a man whose heart is rooted in family finds a home wherever his pack is, and he is truly the free man.
Dannika Dark
#42. Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
William Allen White
#43. My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man's pride, And now it's almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I've got to make things better for my son and for my tribe
Bob Teague
#44. It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Wernher Von Braun
#46. Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
Charles Grandison Finney
#47. No amount of wealth or power can ever make you a rich as a free man.
Adwitiya Borah
#48. What would you do, if you were a free man?"
"I would take my violin and play. I would walk the world and play, until someone called me by name and called me home.
S. Jae-Jones
#49. Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Johnnie Cochran
#51. Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#52. Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
#53. Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
#54. The only free man," he would say, "is one who doesn't work for anyone else.
Charles Yu
#55. I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
Nelson Mandela
#57. The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.
Walter Lippmann
#58. Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Ignazio Silone
#59. The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#60. I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages.
Charles Bukowski
#61. A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.
Joseph Bedier
#62. Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.
Laurence Boldt
#63. We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
George S. Clason
#64. I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
Pierre Trudeau
#65. You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.
Larry McMurtry
#66. A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.
Ludwig Von Mises
#67. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman Rushdie
#69. Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.
Tench Coxe
#71. And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
#72. A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom
Andrzej Majewski
#77. That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher Von Braun
#80. 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, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
Pietro Aretino
#81. A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.
Ilyas Kassam
#82. A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits.. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
#83. The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
#84. 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
#85. And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#88. My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?
Vladimir Nabokov
#89. Wicked People Love Wickedly, Violent People Love Violently, Weak People Love Weakly, Stupid People Love Stupidly, But The Love Of A Free Man Is Never Safe ...
Toni Morrison
#90. It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
Eric Berne
#91. Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a free man in hell?
Wildbow
#92. A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.
Simon Soloveychik
#93. I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
Kenny Loggins
#94. To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
Idries Shah
#95. A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic.
George MacDonald
#96. No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
#97. Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.
Alexandre Dumas
#98. Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#99. There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
#100. A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
John Norman
