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I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

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There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.

Freedom and independence are life or death for us. Because it would be possible to live with people, among people, with a neighbor, in a state where some of your rights are protected. Where the state fulfills its duty to you. It doesn't. Russia does not fulfill any obligations to the people, to the state. So, they simply offer us: They put a wild bear, caught in a forest, in a cage and say : "Go into the cage and live with him, be friends. Give him a paw. Live with this beast and play nice." That's what Russia is.

Translation: To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

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No, chum, there’s a lot of guff talked about freedom. No man is free. There is no such thing as freedom. There are only various privileges.

I know nothing about Russia. I know — I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia.

I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

Words have no word for words that are not true.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

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