“It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.”

— Theodore Kaczynski, book Industrial Society and Its Future

"The Nature of Freedom", item 94
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

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American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist 1942

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