Sophocles on freedom
Sophocles146 quotes“You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.”
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SophoclesSophocles A mind at peace does not engender wars.
SophoclesSophocles It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
SophoclesSophocles Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SophoclesSophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SophoclesSophocles I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SophoclesSophocles Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
SophoclesSophocles Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SophoclesSophocles There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
SophoclesSophocles Laziness is the mother of all evils.
SophoclesSophocles You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
SophoclesSophocles Knowledge must come through action.
SophoclesSophocles Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SophoclesSophocles In season, all is good.
SophoclesSophocles Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
SophoclesSophocles Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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More on freedom
The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
Vladimir LeninVladimir Lenin Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
Jesse OwensJesse Owens Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.
Beth MooreBeth Moore
