“Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.”
in Equality (1931)
sometimes cited as an English proverb, sometimes also attributed to Isaiah Berlin
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Book XII, ch. 7. Compare: "A flat case as plain as a pack-staff", Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act v, Scene 3.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
“The point is plain as a pike-staff.”
Epistle to a Friend as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”
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“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”
Lini
(15 October 1994)
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Lou Papan, former State Assemblyman, The Sacramento Union, unspecified article/page, 26 December 1982.
“There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…”
Source: The Waves
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)