Jeff Lindsay Quotes

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

We are unable to recognize the laws of necessity if we believe we are free

What we want is not freedom but its appearances.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.