“The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.” MenLawFreedomLibertyWiseContraryReleaseShallowConstraints Author:Walt Whitman
“Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.” MeanTermFreedomChanceCircumstancesEqualFortuneSlaveListsCompellingConstraints Author:Seneca the Younger
“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.” TwoFreedomIntegrityAspectConstraints Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.” MenAbleFreedomWorstDifficultyLikesConstraints Author:Thomas Huxley
“Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.” IfsMayHas BeensDoneChoicesCausesFreedomClassEventsConsequenceStatementsSensationsConceptionConstraints Author:Ermanno Bencivenga