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“Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.”

Freedom Complicated Servitude

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?”

Want Should Eye Freedom Ultimate Autonomy Ruling Servitude Yoke Zarathustra

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

Freedom Liberty Tyranny Recollection Servitude

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.”

Men Firsts Made Law Freedom Woods Noble Ran Savages Servitude

Author:John Dryden

“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”

Men Inspirational Individual Nations Freedom Effort Steps Five Danger Type Cost Highest Overcoming Tyranny Resistance Threshold Free Man Servitude

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.”

Freedom Atheism Cures Anarchy Superstitions Remedy Servitude True Freedom

Author:Edmund Burke