Quote by Ezra Pound

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed, but anything further is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

Ezra Pound Freedom
Poet Critic American 1885–1972

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