Illusion Of Freedom Quotes:

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

- Saul Bellow

source: Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, Fear, Avoidance, Stupidity And Ignorance

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Wall, Moving, Long, Brick Wall, Tables And Chairs

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Illusion, Humans, Human Happiness, Illusion Of Freedom

We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

- Karl Hess

source: "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

topic: Children, Home, Exercise, Goons, Illusion Of Freedom

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Zoos, People, Grace, Life Of Pi Book, Illusion Of Freedom

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Fool, Sin, Illusion, Illusion Of Freedom

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

- Immortal Technique

source: Song: The Martyr, Album: The Martyr, 2011

topic: People, Ems, Revolution, Illusion Of Freedom

We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

- Judith Viorst

topic: Letting Go, Dream, Moving, Conscious And Unconscious, Younger Self

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

- Italo Svevo

topic: Illusion, Modern, Confession, Modern Novel, Illusion Of Freedom