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Question: This quote !?!? anyone know what it means!?
'Man is born free but everywhere is in chains!.' By rousseau a french philosopher

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Human kind was introduced in this world as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, to follow his heart where it leads him!.
But he is bound by the Laws of God & by the laws of humans where he will intend to live his life!. For, if he breaks that law, he will abide by the consequences of his actions!. Free to do what is right or wrong but with every rule he breaks, there is a corresponding penalty to it, that is where he is chained to!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Basically to put it short!. Freedom is free!. We are born with no care in the world, but as you get older you are taught what to hate and what to love, this quote has many different meanings, it is one of my favorites, i am a writer and in one of my classes we analyzed quotes more than anything!. just take out of it what you think it means and feed off of others ideasWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think it is false to say you are born free, for you were free before you were born and when the choice was made to reincarnate into this physicality again you are born into slavery of 1) Your bodily needs!. 2) Societal requirements 3) The men with all the money!.
It might sound dire, but it is only what it is!. It does not require that you give up smiling and frolicking ha!
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Although man is born free to an extent we all have limitations of a kind whether of ability or circumstance, there are also cages of convention that restrict us, laws imposed from without, fears that arise from within!. Our choice is to submit or to rail against these impositions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It means that although life is a gift we are oppressed as we live it!. We are born free and then chained by society, labor, money, and a million other things that over time blind us to how we enslave one another!. Although we roam where we wish we always carry those chains with us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

when we are born, we are free!. but wherever we go in the world, we'll be in chains (meaning that we have to work, we have to suffer at times, we have to go through the rain to appreciate the sunshine)Www@QuestionHome@Com

We are born free, but when we grow older were suddenly crushed and trapped by things like "because you don't have enough money" "enough knowlegde" so not matter what your free but stopped by standards!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

" Man is born free " = We were born free

" But everywhere is in chains " = Laws, Restrictions, Rules!.

Basically even though we were born free, the laws and stuff like that keep us from being free!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Society uses individual as labor!. It is like horses running free and then you hook them up to a cart!. He is saying we are (mostly) all like that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Born free, but bound by all kinds of restrictions, laws, customs, etc!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Born free I think means he is self-contained!. But bound in chains because he has humans needs he must constantly work to satisfy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are a free person but the society you live in and with shackles you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com