What is freedom, after all? It's discerned necessity.
A. and B. Strugatsky, from Escape Attempt, translated by me from Hungarian translation.
It's a mangled quote from Marx: "Freedom is the consciousness of necessity". In the Soviet Union this phrase was a staple of state ideology, and a popular folk mockery of it went like "freedom of speech is the conscious necessity to stay silent".
It looks like, this month, I get to be the one to start the quotes thread.