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The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

George Steiner
Freedom, Opposites, Brutality
George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.311, Oxford University Press on Demand
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.