“Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.”
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher
in Equality (1931)
sometimes cited as an English proverb, sometimes also attributed to Isaiah Berlin
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“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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