The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
Friedrich Engels

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
Loretta Young

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie

What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Edgar Quinet

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Stanley Kubrick

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
Leonard Woolley

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
Emeril Lagasse

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran