I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
To define is to limit.
Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.
In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Time is my greatest enemy.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
