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Quotes About Freedom

?i tu ai în tine, pesemne, câteva pic?turi de sânge solar, de p?dure. Poate c? tocmai de aceea eu te --
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Seni korkutuyor çünkü senden güçlü. Nefret ediyorsun çünkü korkuyorsun. Seviyorsun çünkü iplerini eline alam?yorsun. İnsan sadece köle edemediÄŸini sever.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Freedom and crime are linked as indivisibly as ... well, as the motion of the aero and its speed: when its speed equals zero, it does not move; when man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
DüÅŸünen, görüÅŸ sahibi bir yarat???n düzensizlikler, bilinmezler, X'ler aras?nda yaÅŸamas? doÄŸaya ayk?r?d?r: Gözlerinizi baÄŸlad?klar?n? ve yürümeye, hem de hemen birkaç ad?m ötede uçurumun kenar?n?n bulunduÄŸunu bildiÄŸiniz halde el yordam?yla yürümeye zorlad?klar?n? farz edin.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Your mission is to subjugate to the grateful yoke of reason the unknown beings who live on other planets, and who are perhaps still in the primitive state of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
What does it matter to you that I'll stay here alone? What does it matter to you if I don't want others to want on my behalf, but want to want for myself-if I want the impossible .....
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
İnsan? suçtan ar?nd?rman?n tek yolu onu özgürlükten ar?nd?rmakt?r.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I was free again—that is, rather, I was included again in the well-constructed, infinitely stretching Assyrian rows.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
It is clear," interrupted I-330, "that to be original means to stand out among others; consequently, to be original means to violate the law of equality.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why is dance beautiful? And the answer is: because it is non-free motion, because the whole profound meaning of dance lies precisely in its absolute, esthetic subordination; its ideal non-freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Wings are needed in order to fly, but we don't need to fly anywhere. We have arrived at the terminus. We have found what we wanted.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Liberation! It is remarkable how persistent human criminal instincts are! I use deliberately the word "criminal," for freedom and crime are as closely related as—well, as the movement of an aero and its speed: if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like . . . well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn't move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn't commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself — if I want the impossible...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.
~ Yiyun Li
Being known, then, must not be far from being imprisoned by someone else's thought
~ Yiyun Li
We become prisoners of our own beliefs, with no one free to escape such a fate, and this, my dearest friend, is the only democracy offered by the world.
~ Yiyun Li