Freedom Quotes

"To impede spontaneity is to kill the roots from which humanization springs."

"If men and women are not free to think, speak, and act, they cannot be free to become."

"The struggle for humanization, for the emancipation of labor, is the struggle for the word."

"Those who are truly committed to the liberation of the world must reject any paternalism."

"Independence is a natural human need, and its satisfaction is a prerequisite for the development of a strong personality."

"It is the will of the child that must guide us, and not we who should guide the will of the child."

"The child who has become truly free will not be one without purpose, but will be spontaneously oriented toward life."

"The great principle which should guide us in all we do with the child is this: that a person's first instinct is toward independence, not toward obedience."

"The child's personality unfolds when given the freedom to express itself naturally."

"Freedom is realized through participation in community and shared understanding"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The realisation of freedom is the most difficult task of all."

"Freedom exists only in the sense of positive liberty, not negative liberty."

"The mind that is open to all truth is the mind that is free."

"A man is truly free only when he acts from his own convictions and follows the voice within his conscience."

"Genuine freedom is the only true basis for morality."

"The path to freedom runs through understanding and enlightenment."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"The self must negate itself to achieve freedom."

"Freedom requires recognition by another."

"Spirit is freedom; freedom is self-consciousness."

"Freedom is the condition of the highest development of the individual."

"Discipline should lead to self-discipline, not to submission."

"Education is the foundation of a free society."

"The purpose of teaching is to free the human spirit."

"Freedom in education produces free minds."

"Nature does not demand, it invites."

"Freedom consists not in doing what we please, but in understanding what we must do."

"We cannot say that we live in a democracy when fear silences the voices of those who dare to speak truth."

"No one can truly be free while others remain enslaved by ignorance or oppression."