You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody

— Bob Dylan

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;
for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

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There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.

— Margaret Atwood

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War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

— 1984

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

— Freya Madeline Stark

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There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.

— Marya Hornbacher

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

In an age of self, and self-expression, this notion that our very selves can be obstacles to our own freedom comes as a shock. “Freedom from our very selves?” What can this mean? The whole idea of virtue is that we will only see ourselves if we choose a proper end and means to achieve it. The old monks used to speak of “conquering ourselves.” They spoke of this inner war of ourselves against ourselves as the most difficult and perhaps dangerous enterprises of all. It is a Platonic idea, to be sure. All disorder of the world originates in disorder of soul. If we do not learn this truth, nothing else will much matter; we are bound to get it wrong, because we choose to see things wrongly.

— Yves Simon