“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
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“Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?”
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”
Natura beatis,<br/>omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
Natura beatis,
omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.
In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 215-216 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#215.
"Which Is the Liberal Party?"
Uncommon Law (1935)
<!-- http://www.vialibri.net/552display_i/year_1820_600_491675.html DEAD LINK as of 2014·09·06 --> Letter to William James MacNeven (1820); quoted in "The Red Harlot of Liberty: The Rise and Fall of Frances Wright" by Kimberly Nichols in Newtopia Magazine (15 May 2013) http://newtopiamagazine.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-red-harlot-of-liberty-the-rise-and-fall-of-frances-wright/
Context: Another revolution! Naples free and all of Italy in insurrection! How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years … so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth!
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 48
The Valley Of The Flame (1946), published using the pseudonym "Keith Hammond."
Short fiction
"Cyberteeth Bared," http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/opinion/23iht-edbremmer23.html?_r=1&ref=wikileaks The International Herald Tribune (December 22, 2010).