Freedom Quotes

"The tribe's strength lies in its refusal to become a state."

"Power cannot tolerate equality; equality cannot tolerate power."

"We are all trapped in the prison of our own culture; awareness is the only escape."

"Performance breaks down social barriers."

"Freedom cannot exist without discipline and responsibility."

"Social structure provides both constraint and possibility."

"Freedom is always exercised within the constraints of social structure."

"Freedom and constraint are two sides of the same coin."

"Freedom exists in the space between law and desire."

"In the betwixt and between, we find our truest selves, unfettered by social constraints."

"Communitas is experienced as a liberation, yet it is also temporary and must eventually give way to structure."

"In the liminal space, the masks of social performance are removed, revealing the face beneath."

"Social life demands conformity, yet individuals continually reshape their social world through action."

"Social institutions are not obstacles to individual freedom but the very basis of it."

"We are free only within the structures that constrain us."

"The refusal to work is the first form of freedom."

"Equality is maintained through constant vigilance against domination."

"We have exchanged autonomy for security and gained neither."

"Primitive peoples understood what modernity has forgotten: freedom is a practice."

"Society emerges wherever men successfully resist power."

"Modernity offers us freedom and slavery in equal measure."

"Society is the collective refusal to be dominated."

"Archaic societies were not innocent; they were conscious of their freedom."

"Freedom comes from understanding constraints"

"The liminal person belongs nowhere and therefore might belong everywhere."

"The between-space is dangerous because it is free."

"Human freedom exists within the constraints of social structure and cultural norms."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely license."

"Freedom requires responsibility to community."

"Freedom is the ability to choose your response to constraints."