How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

Apart from the environmental factors we have already discussed, there are at least four factors that can motivate—not necessitate—a person’s default on the responsibility of independence and cognitive self-reliance: Thinking requires mental work. A policy of responsibility toward truth and facts, practiced consistently as a way of life, forbids one

How can there be a stable relationship between two free individuals? How can one person’s freedom respect that of another while endowing the bond between them with permanence so that it becomes the basis of trust?

This security is really an illusion, because as I stated earlier, only you can give yourself real security. Any adult can abandon you at any given time; that risk always exists, and to think otherwise is to live in a sense of denial that will be difficult to handle when reality hits. Your partner could have an affair, fall out of love with you, and

A free society depends on trust. Trust depends on keeping your word.