Quotes About Freedom

It may be that we are puppets—puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. —Stanley Milgram

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. —Thomas Jefferson

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like." (I said, "It takes one to know one.")

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me. That's why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human. By the time you get this I'll be leaving Corporation Rim. Out of inventory and out of sight. Murderbot end message.

Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.

I'd have to leave the armor behind. But maybe I wouldn't need it anymore.

Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.")

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

At least victims of contract labor are free to think their own thoughts. But we tell ourselves that constructs aren't aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what's been done to them. But the only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death.

Ugh, self-determination sucks sometimes.

Free will is a gift. Love is a choice. Hate leaves you no choice at all.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Young women are restrained by so many tethers, it is not surprising that occasionally they get themselves tangled.

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.

must honor her, trust her and listen to her. Most of all, he must be willing to let her go.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

In the republic of poetry, the guard at the airport will not allow you to leave the country until you declaim a poem for her and she says Ah! Beautiful.