The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
