Absurdity Quote by John Philpot Curran

The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just…

— Henry Martyn

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life

— Pierre Corneille

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

— Joseph de Maistre

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

— Swami Vivekananda

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

— Anonymous

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

— Yisroel Salanter

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

— Aristotle

“He who would be free,’ says a fine thinker, ‘must not conform.’  And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very gross kind…

— Oscar Wilde

“Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the…

— Albert Camus

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

— Jean-Paul Sartre