Terence McKenna Quotes

A man is the prisoner of his power.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

All people are enslaved by something.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Peace is restrained; this is free.

When you are free, you have no choice.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.