"Freedom is not doing whatever you want to do or following your impulses."

"If you just leave a baby alone, if you follow the logic of negative freedom, you put no barriers in front of that baby. You just let the baby do it at once. That baby is not going to survive. It's not going to become free in any meaningful sense."

"To become the kind of creature who can be free requires help. We need structural help. We need the help of other people."

"The reason people like negative freedom is because I already have serfs, or slaves, or wives or whatever it might be. I am oppressing people, therefore I don't want the state to stop me from doing that."