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Nothing to lose8 quotes
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. — Jack Dawson · 1997Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. — Ernest Hemingway · 1929Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971Tempt not a desp'rate man. — William Shakespeare · 1597I 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 · 1992All 8 quotes →Desperation3 quotes
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971Tempt not a desp'rate man. — William Shakespeare · 1597You 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 · 1968Freedom3 quotes
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971You 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 · 1968Liberation2 quotes
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999You 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 · 1968Changing the world1 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 · 1992Oppression1 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 · 1968Regret1 quote
You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't. — Daniel · 2003