Lauren DeStefano Quotes

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Conscription is the cemetery where every vestige of your liberty is to be buried.

Who loseth his freedom, he loseth all.

It is yours [the state’s right] to shackle the body, and restrain our external actions; that is a restraint we understand. Announce your penalties, and we will make our election of submission or suffering. But do not seek to enslave our minds.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Insecurity threatens liberty.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life’s passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their corporate seats.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day makes man a slave takes half his worth away.

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.