license

• enjoy liberty without

48:7.86. To en­joy priv­i­lege with­out abuse, to have lib­erty with­out li­cense, to pos­sess power and stead­fastly refuse to use it for self-ag­gran­dize­ment—these are the marks of high civ­i­liza­tion.

• forerunner of bondage

54:1.5Un­bri­dled self-will and un­reg­u­lated self-ex­pres­sion equal un­mit­i­gated self­ish­ness, the acme of un­god­li­ness. Lib­erty with­out the as­so­ci­ated and ever-in­creas­ing con­quest of self is a fig­ment of ego­is­tic mor­tal imag­i­na­tion. Self-mo­ti­vated lib­erty is a con­cep­tual il­lu­sion, a cruel de­cep­tion. Li­cense mas­querad­ing in the gar­ments of lib­erty is the fore­run­ner of ab­ject bond­age.

• enjoy liberty without

89:3.7Some­day man should learn how to en­joy lib­erty with­out li­cense, nour­ish­ment with­out glut­tony, and plea­sure with­out de­bauch­ery. Self-con­trol is a bet­ter hu­man pol­icy of be­hav­ior reg­u­la­tion than is ex­treme self-de­nial. Nor did Je­sus ever teach these un­rea­son­able views to his fol­low­ers.