“During my drinking years and well into my first year of sobriety I strived for lack of restrictions. I wanted to have real freedom. Freedom from societal restraints and regulations. Freedom from old confining social mores. This immature and selfish belief was later clarified for me in a pop song lyric, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
— Sigmund Freud
The only real freedom a human being can ever know is doing what you ought to do because you want to do it.
— Page 552 Alcoholics Anonymous
