Top 100 Man Is Free Quotes
#1. it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.
Vincent Cheung
#2. Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#3. I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free ...
William Shakespeare
#4. no man is free until he s a master of himself!!
Epictetus
#6. The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine Of Hippo
#7. Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
#8. LRH wrote that the aims of Scientology are "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.
Leah Remini
#9. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Pythagoras
#10. 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
#11. Every virtuous man is free.
Philo
#13. It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.
Steven J. Lawson
#15. Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
Herbert Spencer
#17. A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John Of Salisbury
#18. Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Ayn Rand
#19. A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus
#21. No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
#22. Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
Blaise Pascal
#23. A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
Anzia Yezierska
#24. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras
#25. The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
James Mansfield
#26. no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire,
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#27. It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
Pope Pius IX
#29. Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
Paul Tillich
#30. Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire
#31. The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Aristotle.
#32. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
#33. Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
Giacomo Casanova
#34. An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.
Randy Alcorn
#36. Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#37. A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free
Langston Hughes
#38. Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.
Vivian Gornick
#41. Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.
Georg Buchner
#42. It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
Woodrow Wilson
#43. Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova
#45. You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#46. Man is free the moment he wants to be.
Voltaire
#49. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace
#50. When a man accepts that he will no doubt die, he is free to live.
M. Glenn Taylor
#51. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Baruch Spinoza
#52. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#53. If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.
James Farley
#54. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
#55. But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever - his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will with enjoyment.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy
#57. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.
William The Silent
#58. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#59. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Samuel Smiles
#60. It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.
Oscar Niemeyer
#61. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#62. We reject the teaching that the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is dependent upon the exercise of man's free will.
Anonymous
#63. The heart of man will never find true peace, if it does not empty itself of all that is not God, so as to free itself all free for His love, that He alone may possess the whole of it. But this the soul cannot do of itself; it must obtain it of God by repeated prayers.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#64. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours - and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. We do not seek to force our code upon them. They are free to believe what they please.
Ayn Rand
#66. Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
John Tyler
#67. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.
Fennel Hudson
#68. The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.
Raheel Farooq
#69. Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.
Malcolm X
#71. If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.
John Milton
#72. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
#74. The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#75. [] no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were ...
William Faulkner
#76. A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
L. Ron Hubbard
#77. I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#78. What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#79. I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz
#80. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton
#81. A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
Emil M. Cioran
#82. It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.
Peter Tosh
#83. The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes to do only when he is not at work.
Eric Gill
#84. No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer
#86. No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever.
John Cassian
#87. Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg
Todd Stocker
#88. Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret
there, I have seen is slavery.
Mary Renault
#90. 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
#91. Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.
Audrey Hepburn
#92. The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Erich Fromm
#93. Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
Mircea Eliade
#94. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Benjamin Harrison
#97. JUNE: My mother always said, "Why should a man buy a cow when he can get the milk for free?"
WARD: I don't think your mother is very bright.
Benjamin R. Smith
#98. Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.
Mikhail Bakunin
#100. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
