If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.