"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes." ― E. M. Forster Topic(s): Freedom More From E. M. Forster "The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art." "One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys." "The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race." More In Freedom "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."― W. Somerset Maugham "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."― Walter Lippmann "For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."― Barack Obama