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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Daniel1 quote
You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't. — Daniel · 2003Elijah Muhammad1 quote
I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do. — Elijah Muhammad · 1992Ernest Hemingway1 quote
Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. — Ernest Hemingway · 1929Jack Dawson1 quote
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. — Jack Dawson · 1997Janis Joplin1 quote
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971Tyler Durden1 quote
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999William Shakespeare1 quote
Tempt not a desp'rate man. — William Shakespeare · 1597