
“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”
Source: The Immoralist
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”
Source: The Immoralist
“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.”
Source: Out Of The Crisis (1982), p. 11
Natural Philosophy of Time (1980) as quoted by Suk-Jun Kim, "Time felt and places imagined in my compositions" (2011)
Context: Although the peculiarly fundamental nature of time in relation to ourselves is evident as soon as we reflect that our judgments concerning time and events in time appear themselves to be 'in' time, whereas our judgments concerning space do not appear themselves in any obvious sense to be in space, physicists have been influenced far more profoundly by the fact that space seems to be presented to us all of a piece, whereas time comes to us only bit by bit. The past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilarity between space and time has nowhere had a greater influence than in physical science based on the concept of measurement. Free mobility in space leads to the idea of the transportable unit length and the rigid measuring rod. The absence of free mobility in time makes it much more difficult for us to be sure that a process takes the same time whenever it is repeated.
Frank commenting on legislation to remove federal criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. CNN Newsroom : Rep. Barney Frank's Marijuana Bill http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/30/cnr.05.html (30 July 2008)]
free of charge sayings https://quotestats.com/topic/free-of-charge-sayings/ (?)
Of Time, Work, and Leisure (1962)
Source: Speech at the first anniversary of the founding of Seoul Board of Education (2 October 1957)
Interview with Recode: "Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd on Recode Decode" https://www.recode.net/2017/7/5/15917638/transcript-oracle-co-ceo-mark-hurd-onstage-cloud-computing-saas-on-recode-decode (05 July 2017)
Progress In Religion (2000)
Context: In the time of Jesus and for many centuries afterwards, there was a free market in human bodies. The institution of slavery was based on the legal right of slave-owners to buy and sell their property in a free market. Only in the nineteenth century did the abolitionist movement, with Quakers and other religious believers in the lead, succeed in establishing the principle that the free market does not extend to human bodies. The human body is God's temple and not a commercial commodity. And now in the twenty-first century, for the sake of equity and human brotherhood, we must maintain the principle that the free market does not extend to human genes. Let us hope that we can reach a consensus on this question without fighting another civil war.
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 14