The two inhabitants of Paradise were given the opportunity to choose: happiness without freedom or freedom without happiness; tertium non datur. And they, donkeys, chose freedom: so what? You understand: then they regretted the chains for centuries.

Another quote →

Source, in full

Ai due abitanti del Paradiso fu data l’opportunità di scegliere: felicità senza libertà o libertà senza felicità; tertium non datur. E loro, asini, scelsero la libertà: e dunque? Si capisce: poi hanno rimpianto le catene per secoli.

Notes from Wikiquote

As quoted in Giulia Giaume, Noi, o di come nacque la distopia, in Arttrubune.com (in Italian; October 25, 2024)

More quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

All Yevgeny Zamyatin quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Yevgeny Zamyatin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.