Alternatives Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.”

— George Orwell

“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.”

— George Orwell

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

“They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or…

— Anonymous

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

— Arthur Miller

“Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed”

— Steven Erikson

“You were in paradise, but you didn’t recognize it. It’s the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most…

— Paulo Coelho