“My freedom therefore requires that I can ask myself what I *should* do with my time. Even when I am utterly absorbed in what I do, what I say, and what I love, the possibility of this question must be alive in me. Being engaged in my activities, I must run the risk of being bored--otherwise my engagement would be a matter of compulsive necessity. Being devoted to what I love, I must run the risk of losing it or giving it up--otherwise there would be nothing at stake in maintaining and actively relating to what I love. Most fundamentally, I must live in relation to my irrevocable death--otherwise I would believe that my time is infinite and there would be no urgency in dedicating my life to anything.
The condition of our freedom, then, is that we understand ourselves as finite. Only in light of the apprehension that we will die--that our lifetime is indefinite but finite--can we ask ourselves what we ought to do with our lives and put ourselves at stake in our activities. This is why all religious visions of eternity, as we shall see, ultimately are visions of *unfreedom.*”
Source: This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“When the ego abdicates its freedom, when it becomes a passive spectator of its own existence, the times are ripe for the philosophies of History”
Source: The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis
“We jumped out of the car and began to run. A cottage, to hide in, a boat, I don’t know what we thought. He said the passports were foolproof, and we had so little time to plan. Maybe he had a plan, a map of some kind in his head. As for me, I was only running: away, away.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I want to leave as soon as I can. I think I was born with a suitcase.”
“Effectiveness without autonomy is not effective, dependency-induced compliance is no social contract, a hive with no exit can never be a home, experience without sanctuary is but a shadow, a life that requires hiding is no life, touch without feel reveals no truth, and freedom from uncertainty is no freedom.”
Source: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
“They could kill him, but they’d never own him again.”
Source: The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West
“Whenever HUman take any adoption of animals, birds fish etc etc. Except Dogs and cats [ **Note with freedom ] - it's as same as caging/punishing HUman itself. Because : Sky is the limit of Birds, Ocean/Rivers/Lakes are the limits of Fishes and For animals their self marked Territory is the limit. Some how we HUmans by adoption as Pets take their freedom of existence/life.”
“Let blood seal the freedom of the captive!”
Source: The Monster in the Hollows
“If we lack choice we lack everything.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“We’re offered opportunities to,” he gave a slight chuckle, “integrate. Refusal is recorded as hostility.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease