If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
BanksyRead
The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that freedom and slavery are closely related concepts, with a very fine distinction between them.
Banksy's quote emphasizes that the boundary between freedom and oppression is often subtle and can be easily crossed. It implies that one may not recognize their own constraints until it is too late, highlighting the importance of awareness and vigilance in preserving freedom. This thin line can represent societal, political, or personal limitations that people might not always perceive.
Themes
FreedomSlaveryOppressionAwarenessLimitation
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about civil rights, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of fighting against oppression.
More from Banksy
All quotes βT.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
BanksyRead
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.
BanksyRead
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
BanksyRead
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
BanksyRead
Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they donβt have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
BanksyRead
Similar quotes
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
Bertrand RussellRead
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRead
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
Victor HugoRead
Worse than despair,_x000D_ _x000D_ Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyRead
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
John GreenRead
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
William GodwinRead