“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
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“It is so sweet to hear His voice in silence, so sweet indeed.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
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“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
His Dream http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1509/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) <br class="br">Context: I swayed upon the gaudy stern<br>The butt-end of a steering-oar,<br>And saw wherever I could turn<br>A crowd upon a shore.<br>And though I would have hushed the crowd,<br>There was no mother's son but said,<br>'What is the figure in a shroud<br>Upon a gaudy bed?'<br>And after running at the brim<br>Cried out upon that thing beneath<br>--It had such dignity of a limb--<br>By the sweet name of Death.<br>Though I'd my finger on my lip,<br>What could I but take up the song?<br>And running crowd and gaudy ship<br>Cried out the whole night long,<br>Crying amid the glittering sea,<br>Naming it with the ecstatic breath,<br>Because it had such dignity,<br>By the sweet name of Death.
“The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
National Book Awards, November 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/national-book-awards-ursula-le-guin <br class="br">Context: I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river.... The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.
