Top 1200 Free Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Going through everything in my mind, I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking Baltimore, thinking this is my fit, this is where I want to be, and they want me.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

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

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

Each of us wants to be free. But if we want to be free, we also need to appreciate that others also desire the same thing.

If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Live events are notorious for being pressure free. Stress free. It's all about just doing the match. Doing what you feel.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.

When I say about 'dream is free,' I don't only mean about basketball or to be in the NBA like Serge Ibaka. No. I mean in general, in anything you do. You can do anything you want, anything you dream about. You can do it. You just have to know the dream is free. And dream is free for everybody.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don't think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.