More From James Russell Lowell
- "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
- "Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
- "Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
More In Freedom
- "How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every ‘should’ is a compulsion, and not every ‘like’ is a high morality and true freedom."― Karl Rahner
- "Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it."― Jack Kevorkian
- "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."― Abbie Hoffman