"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."
― George Eliot
Topic(s):
Freedom
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."
- "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
- "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
More In Freedom
- "Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don’t think they sit there abstractly hating freedom."― Zbigniew Brzezinski
- "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
- "Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do."― Quentin Tarantino