“The free man never thinks of escape.”
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
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Jeanette Winterson187
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Sometimes paraphrased as "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
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Hugh Crane a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat (1979)
Context: There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
“I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 258
Memoirs (1993)
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 170