"It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism."
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"It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism."
"Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?"
"I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me."
"In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like."
"Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need."
"Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision."
"Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information."
"Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?"
"What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?"
"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."
"In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery"
"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."
"He slid his hands to the back of her neck, fumbling for the necklace’s clasp. He undid it and held the chain of rubies up, red and gold in the flickering candlelight. “No shackles for us,” he said, “no matter how rich."
"A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom."
"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"
"You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase."
"Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others."
"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations."
"Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind."
"The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1"
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