In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
