Dog Freedom Quotes

#1. Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

John Ruskin

#2. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

William Shakespeare

#3. I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Jim Harrison

#4. Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

George Orwell

#5. I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Craig Newmark

#6. Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Nelson Mandela

#7. It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

David Sedaris

#8. They have perfected the art of giving us just enough freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog.

Ally Condie

#9. Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

Conor Oberst

#11. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

Sherwood Anderson

#12. A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.

Toni Maguire

#13. They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog ... - Cassia

Ally Condie

#14. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.

Anthony Liccione

#15. Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

J.G. Ballard

#16. Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

Kate Upton

#18. If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

Barbara Castle

#19. In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Bruno Schulz