D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.