Freedom For The Wolves Has

I Wish My Life And Decisions To Depend Upon Myself, Not On External Forces Of Whatever Kind. I Wish To Be The Instrument Of My Own, Not Other Men's, Acts Of Will. I Wish To Be The Subject, Not An Object...i Wish To Be Somebody, Not Nobody; A Doer - Deciding, Not Being Decided For, Slef-directed And Not Acted Upon By External Nature Or By Other Men As If I Were A Thing, Or An Animal, Or A Slave Incapable Of Playing A Human Role, That Is, Of Conceiving Goals And Policies Of My Own And Realizing Them.

The Most Passionate, Consistent, Extreme And Implacable Enemy Of The Enlightenment And ... All Forms Of Rationalism ... Was Johann Georg Hamann. His Influence, Direct And Indirect, Upon The Romantic Revolt Against Universalism And Scientific Method ... Was Considerable And Perhaps Crucial.

The Fundamental Sense Of Freedom Is Freedom From Chains, From Imprisonment, From Enslavement By Others. The Rest Is Extension Of This Sense, Or Else Metaphor.

The History Of Society Is The History Of The Inventive Labors That Man Alter Man, Alter His Desires, Habits, Outlook, Relationships Both To Other Men And To Physical Nature, With Which Man Is In Perpetual Physical And Technological Metabolism.

Utopias Have Their Value -- Nothing So Wonderfully Expands The Imaginative Horizons Of Human Potentialities -- But As Guides To Conduct They Can Prove Literally Fatal.