Possessed

Famous quotes containing the word possessed:

“We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,—and then we can hardly see anything else.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor in depth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)