George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Florilegium, XVIII, 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 368
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
As translated by Nicholas Rowe(1732)
No man is free who cannot command himself.
As quoted in Moral Encyclopaedia, Or, Varlé's Self-instructor, No. 3 (1831) by by Charles Varle
No man is free who cannot control himself.
As quoted in 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life (2006) by Linda Elder and Richard Paul
Florilegium
“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam
Canto II, st. 43
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 47
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate (1799)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who asked this question was called a traitor. Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought? Such men were called infidels. The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop? They said then and they say now, that it is dangerous for man to be free. I deny it. Out on the intellectual sea there is room enough for every sail. In the intellectual air there is space enough for every wing.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
“The slave who dances is free… while he is dancing.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian author
"Tomorrow" (1919), as translated in A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970) edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg
Context: Yesterday, there was a tsar, and there were slaves; today there is no tsar, but the slaves remain; tomorrow there will be only tsars. We march in the name of tomorrow's free man — the royal man. We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual — in the name of man. Wars, imperialist and civil, have turned man into material for warfare, into a number, a cipher. Man is forgotten, for the sake of the sabbath. We want to recall something else to mind: that the sabbath is for man.
The only weapon worthy of man — of tomorrows's man — is the word.