Top 1200 Free Expression Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.

What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

These gun-free areas are actually - they're free-shooting zones for people because they know that there won't be anybody there that can stop them.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Without a free man, there is no free market. That's called exploitation.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ... And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time... We are gonna have a party.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

Paul Ryan wants his weekends free? Fine - let's give him all 365 days free.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going.

Free throws - it's free money. I've got to make that count.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

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.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

Freedom is not something you're even trying to fight for; you are free. Go. Make sure you live free every day.