“I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."” AgeFictionLibertyTypeNew AgeRamaParodySnowboarding Author:Frederick Lenz
“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.” MenEarthCausesFictionLibertyMoralAtheismMastersIntellectualSlaveryPositive AtheismHeavenlySanctions Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.” IdeasYoungFictionLibertyGreaterHarderAbsolutesAgingSeriousness Author:Dacia Maraini
“But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.” PeoplePersonsLongHandsRunningEarthIndividualFictionLibertyExerciseProveInstitutionsCommandDestructiveLong RunsSovereigntyIndividual Liberty Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
“With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.” PeopleKnowsShouldHas BeensCharacterSeemsUnderstandingFictionLibertyNovelTakenEventsHistoricalDramaticPoeticLicenseAccordLatitudeHistorical NovelsPoetic License Author:Nicholas Meyer
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” InspirationalHumorGovernmentPoliticalFictionLibertyEconomicsLibertarianSocialismCommunismLiberalismExpensesEndeavorLibertarianismLaissez FaireFree GovernmentLibertarian PartyEconomic FreedomLimited FreedomGreat LibertarianGreat Political Author:Frederic Bastiat