
“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
Source: Be Here Now
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.
“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
Source: Be Here Now
“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”
Source: The Devil's Right Hand
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Quoted in Vernon K. McLellan (2000) Wise Words and Quotes
Misattributed
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
Source: Open Secrets (1994)
“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles