Theodore Kaczynski Quotes

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

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

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

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

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

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

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.