Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.
People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.
Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Freedom to reject is the only freedom
I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.
Freedom from something is not freedom.
