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Quotes About Free

What is offered for free is dangerous--it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.
~ Robert Greene
We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song. You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of my sisters may well try to guide your steps as I once did.
~ Robert Jordan
By a Free Methodist!" groaned Mrs. Frederick — as if to have been married by an imprisoned Methodist would have been a shade less disgraceful.
~ L.M. Montgomery
And it's the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.
~ Larry McMurtry
Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word.
~ Larry Niven
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
~ Robert Kennedy
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
~ William Beveridge
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
~ John F. Kennedy
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the govenment whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Monopoly, besides, is a great enemy to good management, which can never be universally established, but in consequence of that free and universal competition which forces every body to have recourse to it for the sake of self defence.
~ Adam Smith
I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am a rain. I cannot be contained. Free of Life, how then shall I be shackled? Free of Time, how then shall History be my cage? I am a wave, an influence. Who then shall be made safe from me?
~ Alan Moore
Well, it took me over two hours to find Frencescos keys which was disappointing but I did go to Venice for free and I didnt fall into the canal on the way home like a twat.
~ Derren Victor Brown
Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
~ Diablo Cody
No one can speak of the beginning but the one who was in the beginning. Thus the Bible begins with God's free affirmation, free acknowledgment, free revelation of himself: In the beginning God created...
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
~ Robertson Davies
Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.
~ Jerry Bridges
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
~ Jerry Saltz
Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.)
~ Erik Larson
Soon, leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! Like hogs, yes! Like beautiful leedle hogs!
~ Eugene O'Neill
What consumers have to understand is that "free" services on the Internet are never really free. As Reputation.com's CEO Michael Fortik told me, the business models of supposedly free social networks like Facebook is the sale of our information to their advertisers. We, the producers of data on the free network, are its product rather than its friend or partner.
~ Andrew Keen
The sea is free and open. Trade is free. Profit is sacred. Love the trade and profit of your neighbour like your own. To hinder someone's trading and profiting is to break the laws of nature.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Star and Ariel looked at each other, aghast. The coven was about to burn two kids from the Castle. What would the Queen have to say about that? It would be goodbye to their free food at Wizard Sandwiches for sure.
~ Angie Sage