Freedom could get you killed. (FE)
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... you couldn't really imprison someone like Leonard of Quirm. The most you could do was lock up his body. The gods alone knew where his mind went. (J)
'Is It Frightening To Be Free?'
'You said it.' 'You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves?' 'Seems to be a major human activity, yes.' (FC) He'd said to the people: you're free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant .... (FC)
Freedom did, of course, include man's age-old right to starve to death. (IT)
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. (WS)
‘Those who wish to tell us how we should think, and sometimes that we shouldn’t even think at all, must be ignored.’ (JD)
There’s no slavery as such, except to tradition, but tradition wields a heavy lash. I mean, maybe democracy isn’t perfect, but at least we don’t let ourselves be outvoted by the dead. (BOS)
'There should be no slaves, even slaves to instinct.' (UA)
'I couldn’t tell you even if I knew, because of zer Freedom of zer Press.’
‘Freedom to pour oil on a flame, d’you mean?’ Vimes demanded. ‘That’s freedom for you,’ said Otto. No vun said it vas nice.' (Th) 'The freedom to succeed goes hand in hand with the freedom to fail.' (GP)
'You can’t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world. Otherwise it’s just a cage.' (WA)
When you have been a possession, then you really understand what freedom means, in all its magnificent terror. (MM)
'No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.' (GP)
'Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.' (GP)
She felt the same feeling she’d felt back home. Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.
It doesn’t matter what direction you go. Sometimes you just have to go. (Ma) |
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