Neil Peart Quotes

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Freedom from something is not freedom.

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

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

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

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.

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

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.

I hired my services for three months for the round sum of three dollars per month. I thought this an immense sum. Fast work was no trouble to me; for when the work was done, the money was mine. That was a great consideration. I could go out on Saturdays and Sundays, and home when I pleased, without being whipped. I thought of my fellow-servants left behind, bound in the chains of slavery,--and I was free! I thought, that, if I had the power, they should soon be as free as I was; and I formed a resolution that I would assist in liberating every one within my reach at the risk of my life, and that I would devise some plan for their entire liberation..

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

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

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.