Fixed Point Free

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, point and/or free:

    A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.
    Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940)

    For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.
    Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)