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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.


Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio...
RAMANA MAHARSHI In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He m...
MARY ROBINSON When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIRE When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
BENJAMIN HAYDON But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an...
ALAN PATON But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h...
ALAN PATON The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.
PIERCE BROWN If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be a bad-...
OSHO We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a tho...
HENRIK IBSEN You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be ...
WILLIAM SAROYAN After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
HELEN FISHER It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable
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EIICHIRō ODA Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you trap a man in a large enough cage, he will believe he is free.
DANIEL SIMPSON Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He's been put on the concussion program again, but the first one was so severe I think the program m...
LINDY RUFF Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by...
JAMES F. BYRNES Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young m...
JOHN CONNOLLY Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thought...
BUDDHA He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' - those who are free of resentful thoughts ...
BUDDHA When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chain...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or mad...
THEODORE H WHITE Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE H. WHITE When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose
WILMA ASKINAS At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in ge...
GEORGES BATAILLE A wise man finds joy when he finds himself no longer a slave to his emotions.
KAREMA MCGHEE When a judge is unjust he is no longer a judge but a transgressor
GIOSUE BORSI Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
GERMAN PROVERB When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci...
GEOFFREY F. ABERT When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci...
ABERT F. GEOFFREY When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you
PROVERB Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of h...
RUDOLF STEINER You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is ...
AUBERON HERBERT Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than tha...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Remember: He-Man ?? His favorite quote "I have the Power!!!" He claimed that this power made him the...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Evaluating people is quite difficult. In order to properly evaluate a man, we should have a chance t...
ERALDO BANOVAC You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cu...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changi...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI When a mute man sins, it's not with his tongue. When a blind man sins, it's not with his eyes. When ...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becom...
GIACOMO CASANOVA A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to ma...
FAITH HILL Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is either free or he is not.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I am very happy for him, ... What a role model he is. He is everything you would want your son to be...
FRANK GIFFORD A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
EDGAR DEGAS Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
EDGAR DEGAS Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.
J.D. ROBB Man holds dominion and was given free will but the irony is that he must learn to surrender his will...
KATE MCGAHAN When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.
SHANNON L. ALDER Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...
SAUL ALINSKY The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really...
OPRAH WINFREY When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing t...
HERMANN HESSE A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make ...
CRISS JAMI Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.
JANICE TRACHTMAN When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
MARK TWAIN Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about yo...
SAUL ALINSKY Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
CYRIL JAMES Man is never less miserable than when he appears to be deprived of everything.
VIKRANT PARSAI A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry
OSCAR WILDE No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I had a chance to read ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, bel...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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