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Quotes About Free

You are the holy Son of God Himself. Remember this and all the world is free. Remember this and earth and Heaven are one. Lesson
~ Helen Schucman
There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.
~ lessig lawrence ii
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
~ lessig lawrence ii
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
~ lessig lawrence iii
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.
~ lessig lawrence iii
Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free, conscious idling that despises labour, this is one of the chief characteristics of our time.
~ Lev Shestov
No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'
~ Jean Chatzky
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.
~ Daniel Lyons
Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.
~ Daniel Lyons
The Ripple network is a protocol. It's like HTTP for money. Users, merchants, anyone can use it for free without a license.
~ Chris Larsen
This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Access to Internet and content should be free for users which can get accommodated by advertisements.
~ Naveen Tewari
Trump knows how to play the media all on his own. He creates his own Twitter feed and uses it. He knows how to get the media's attention without the benefit of a state-controlled media. He does it all on his own. Trump understands how a free media works.
~ Fiona Hill
If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.
~ Leon Russell
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
~ Ronald Fisher
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.
~ Chris Anderson
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~ Unknown
marketing identifies two hundred weapons of marketing, and many of them are free.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
For people of a certain age in this country, culture comes free of charge. It is thought they are too old to misuse it.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Every free action has two causes which concur in producing it, one moral, namely the will which determines it, the other physical, namely the power which executes it.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Where shall I keep mine? you don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution. The
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau