A Quote by Georg Buchner

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Georg Buchner

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Georg Buchner
German - Dramatist
October 17, 1813 - February 19, 1837

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Arthur Helps

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Henry George Bohn

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Rabindranath Tagore

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

David Levithan

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

William James

Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.

Langdon Smith

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

Aristotle

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Anais Nin

Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.

Takashi Miike

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

W. Somerset Maugham

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

Charles Gilchrist Adams

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

Jacques Derrida

I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

Stefanie Schneider

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