Nature Quote by John Brunner

To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

— Bertrand Russell

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet…

— Mark Twain

“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he…

— Franz Kafka

“His rules were unencumbered by my constraints—the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,”

— Jeffery Deaver

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime…

— Blaise Pascal

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than…

— Bram Stoker

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

— Will Durant

“He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man…

— Jack London

“He always kept up his spirits, and was able in literary circles to show that he could hold his own. But he was driven…

— Anthony Trollope