It's only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything.
What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.
Original (French):
L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
Explanation:
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 55
No man is free who is not master of himself.
If you're dead already, you're free.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
