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Echoes Across Time

Freedom — The Uncomfortable Truth

The sardonic tradition on liberty: Franz Kafka's corridors, George Orwell's doublethink, Karl Marx's irony, Nawal El Saadawi's unflinching eye — writers who noticed that freedom is harder than it sounds.

32 total quotes

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.

—Alexis de TocquevilleScientist & Historian

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The British never understood our aspirations for true national independence.

—Chin PengAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • Southeast Asia

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License they mean when they cry liberty.

—John MiltonPoet & Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Humor is a way of not becoming the prisoner of your own ideas.

—Rosario CastellanosPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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There's no way out, and that itself is the way out.

—László KrasznahorkaiNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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I thought that if one was sane in an insane world, one would appear to be mad.

—Dambudzo MarecheraWriter

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them.

—Thomas JeffersonPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My only crime is to have given liberty to my brothers.

—Toussaint LouvertureRevolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Caribbean

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Every country is a wound that its inhabitants call home.

—Juan VilloroNovelist, Journalist & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Latin America

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A woman alone in a room is the most dangerous thing there is.

—Armonía SomersNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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The colonizer's language became our own, twisted, vibrant, full of defiant new meanings.

—Jessica HagedornNovelist, Poet & Artist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

—George OrwellNovelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Long live the king, but death to bad government!

—Túpac Amaru IIAuthor & Thinker

Enlightenment ERA • Latin America

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Language is a trap. I try to make it spring.

—Sony Labou TansiPlaywright & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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Sometimes I think freedom is just another word for loneliness.

—Jenny ZhangPoet & Writer

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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I'm really not like that, all starch and Catholic lace.

—Eunice de SouzaPoet

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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Marriage is the tomb of trust and love between women and men.

—Olympe de GougesActivist & Playwright

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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We are not the brown girls the missionaries warned you about.

—Sia FigielNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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Men are not made for liberty; they are made for equality.

—Alexis de TocquevilleScientist & Historian

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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A cage went in search of a bird.

—Franz KafkaWriter

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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