- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free Quotes
Freedom means something different to everyone.
These free quotes cover more ground than the single word suggests, from the simple pleasure of free time spent reading to the physics of breaking free from gravity's chains. Browse our dedicated Free Time page for more on that specific angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
- Radicals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vanilla is anti-inflammatory and reduces free radicals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a free safety. The one responsibility I have is making the play, really. So I take those chances.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
- Overcoming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020