“We are all free—to walk our appointed paths. Just as a stone is free to fall when you toss it into the air. No one is free in the abstract meaning you give the word.”

Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), pp. 13–14

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 40.

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Source: Practice of the Wild

Catchphrases
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Free Culture (2004)
Context: A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. Like Stallman's arguments for free software, an argument for free culture stumbles on a confusion that is hard to avoid, and even harder to understand. A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it. That is what I fear about our culture today. It is against that extremism that this book is written.

Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18