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Quote by Rachel Cohn

“'Freedom.' He pauses a moment to reflect on the F-word. 'Sometimes I think it's an idea that enslaves us. We're never free from hungering for the notion that we can even have freedom. When perhaps it's the very idea of it that causes us to suffer.”

Book:You Know Where to Find Me

Work

You Know Where to Find Me

This novel delves into the lives of individuals entangled in a complex web of hidden truths and deceit. The story unfolds as the characters navigate through a world where trust is scarce and the truth is elusive. more

Author

Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn is an American author born on December 14, 1968. She is known for her works in young adult literature and novels, which have gained popularity among readers. more

“With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both physical punishment and manipulative cure for anti-social members of the community. They look to reasoned argument and friendly treatment to deal with criminals and wish to respect their humanity and individuality.”

Philosophy Freedom Society Individuality Autonomy Anarchism Individual Freedom

Book:Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Source: Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”

Power Individuality

Book:City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

Source: City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which are piled up goods that cannot satisfy: neither clothe those who are naked, nor feed those who are hungry; it is as impersonal as factory hangars and industrial cities in which manufactured things remain abstract, true with statistical truth and borne on the anonymous circuit of the economy, resulting from skilful planning decisions which cannot prevent, but prepare disasters. There it is, the mind in its masculine essence, living on the outside, exposed to the violent, blinding sun, to the trade winds that beat against it and beat it down, on a land without folds, rootless, solitary and wandering and thus already alienated by the very things which it caused to be produced and which remain untameable and hostile.”

Philosophy

Author:Emmanuel Lévinas

“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.”