Unfree World Quotes

#1. It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of travel and intercourse and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. [Gerald Barry, from article in English Speaking World, 1950.]

Harriet Atkinson

#2. To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.

C. Wright Mills

#3. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

#4. I'm in love with a girl who knows me better.
Fell for the woman just when I met her.
Took my sweet time when I was bitter.
Someone understands,
She knows how treat a fella right.
Give me that feeling every night,
She wants show love when I wanna fight,
Now someone understand me.

Juxtaposition

#5. Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

Penn Jillette

#6. When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

Katarina Witt

#7. The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Robert Anton Wilson

#8. The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

Ken Burns

#9. Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Edwin Louis Cole

#10. We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.

Murray Bookchin

#11. He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I live my life with hope, always hope, that the future will be better than the present, but only as long as I work to make it so.

R.A. Salvatore

#13. The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.

James Branch Cabell