Fugitive Quotes
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Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
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More Fugitive Quotes
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?
jane addams— Peace and Bread in Time of War, Chapter 7: Personal Reactions During War (1922)
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
jack vance— Chapter 5 (Emphyrio (1969))
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.
— 1977 The Marble Foot: an Autobiography,1905-1938, p.227.
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
william wordsworth— c.1802-1803 'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 9 (published1807).
Friend, I haven't a dollar in the world; but if thee knows a fugitive who needs a breakfast send him to me. if not go away
thomas garrett— In a closing address at his trail (1848), after a judge said to "Thomas, I hope you will never be caught at this business again"; as quoted in History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Vol. 2 (1874) by Henry Wilson, p. 85; also in Station Master on the Underground Railroad : The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett (2005) by James A. McGowan, p. 65
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— Judge — thee hasn't left me a dollar, but I wish to say to thee, and to all in this court room, that if anyone knows of a fugitive who wants a shelter, and a friend, send him to Thomas Garrett, and he will befriend him!As quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, p. 54
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.
gilbert keith chesterton— Chapter IX : Authority and the Adventurer
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.
derrick jensen— p. 60 (The Culture of Make Believe (2003))
He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. ‘you cannot pass … Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? … Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.’
C. S. Lewis— Pilgrim’s Regress 44-45
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.
kenneth rexroth— Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations (p. 82)
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
howard zinn— Ch. 1 (A People's History of the United States (1980))
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
— used 23 November 2011, proposed by Kalki
Let the world rank me in register A master-leaver and a fugitive: O Antony! O Antony!
— Enobarbus, scene ix (Act IV)
