Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

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

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

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

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

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.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

My people are gone into captivity for want of knowledge.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Many of the former Slaves are only nominally free, for the servile spirit is still within them.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep .... They are determined not to be free.

… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.