“It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.”
More from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Freedom
“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”