“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”
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American motivational speaker 1926–2012Related quotes
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As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
“Down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.”
Carousels.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
George W. Bush
(1946) 43rd President of the United States
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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.
“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”
Paul Desmond
(1924–1977) American jazz musician
On contact lenses
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“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
Rod Blagojevich
(1956) Former Governor of Illinois
At a press conference, December 8, 2008, in Chicago, IL. CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/illinois.governor/?iref=mpstoryview
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