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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.