"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken." ― Leo Tolstoy Topic(s): Freedom More From Leo Tolstoy "All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do." "Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible." "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." More In Freedom "It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."― Corazon Aquino "So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."― Floyd Abrams "If it’s total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn’t even have to play."― Alice Cooper