While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all. (Oscar Wilde)

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Oscar Wilde

Related topics

charity conformity free man remain while yet yield

Related quotes

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. View quote
Joseph Conrad
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson