“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than to outrun exposer. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“When wolves stalk the flock, best not to chain the dogs. And the flock is safer yet when the sheep grow fangs.”
“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”
“[...] it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement. ”
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”