Famous quotes containing the words free and/or public:
“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)