"'Liberation?' Astonishing how the criminal instincts do survive in the human species. I choose the word criminal advisedly. Freedom and criminality are just as indissolubly linked as...well, as the movement of an aero and its velocity. When the velocity of an aero is reduced to 0, it is not in motion; when a man's freedom is reduced to zero, he commits no crimes. That's clear. the only way to rid man of crime is rid him of his freedom"(36).
This stood out to me this is the way this entire society thinks. They have created their schedules and laws based on this philosophy. When D-503 questions the word liberation, he wonders why anyone would want to leave a so called perfect society. He does not understand freedom because he has never been free. Freedom cannot be learned, but must be experienced. The people's time is completely taken up by doing what they are told and following a schedule that allows little free time. It may be true that eliminating freedom is the only way to completely get rid of crime, but in doing so, life itself is also being taken away.
Today, freedom is taken away from criminals so that they can no longer commit any crimes. This book starts everyone out with no freedom in the hope that they can have no crime. However, individualism will emerge anyway. It is not possible to run a society that eliminates the individual.
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