Quotes About Unfreedom

#1. We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Slavoj Zizek

#2. What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Philip Guston

#3. Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

Amartya Sen

#4. Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

Slavoj Zizek

#5. Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it's absolute unfreedom.

Arthur Koestler

#6. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Alistair MacLeod

#7. The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Don Murray

#8. I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. For every opinion you receive, seek guidance from the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.

Claire Danes

#11. Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?

Walter Sickert

#12. Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Lewis Carroll

#13. I used to think that English-speaking who conveniently look, dress, and act human only turned up in lazy science fiction. But as Carly and Frampton dematerialized, I became grimly aware of how well they'd also fit into a psychotic hallucination.

Rob Reid