Freedom Quote by Iain Pears

“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence…

— Joseph Heller

“But he did allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracized. And perhaps more of us thought as he did, but…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

— Joseph Heller

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart…

— Charles Dickens

“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics. His vocation…

— Carola Giedion-Welcker

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of…

— Albert Einstein

“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling,…

— Michael Chabon