Radclyffe Hall Quotes

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

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

My people are gone into captivity for want of knowledge.

All people are enslaved by something.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

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.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

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

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

A man is the prisoner of his power.

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

How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain --

There are worse things than war.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.