The multitudes who enslave themselves

No one was ever born who agreed to be a slave, who accepted it, that is slavery is a condition imposed from without. The moment I said that I realized that multitudes and multitudes of people, for various reasons of their own, enslave themselves every hour of every day to this or that doctrine, this or that delusion of safety, this or that lie. Anti-Semites, for example, are slaves to a delusion. People who hate Negros are slaves; people who love money are slaves. We live in a universe, really, of willing slaves which is what makes concepts of liberty so dangerous and concepts of freedom so dangerous.