Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.Winston Churchill
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.Bernard Shaw
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.Salman Rushdie
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.Albert Camus
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.Cicero