Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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B
"The most revolutionary act is to be fully ourselves."
Bruno Bettelheim
B
"A child needs roots to grow and wings to fly."
Bruno Bettelheim
D
"True freedom emerges not from the absence of constraints, but from the ability to work within necessary limits."
D.W. Winnicott
D
"The paradox of freedom is that it requires both unlimited possibility and necessary constraint."
D.W. Winnicott
D
"When we are no longer performing for an audience, we are finally free to live."
D.W. Winnicott
K
"The capacity to move about freely in society will always be easiest for those who possess wealth, beauty, and youth."
Karen Horney
K
"Real freedom lies not in doing what we want, but in wanting what we ought."
Karen Horney
K
"What we need is not freedom from responsibilities, but freedom to fulfill them."
Karen Horney
K
"The shoulds we impose upon ourselves are prisons of our own design."
Karen Horney
K
"The price of freedom is the responsibility to choose wisely."
Karen Horney
K
"What we suppress in ourselves will eventually control us."
Karen Horney
W
"Censorship of myths impoverishes our collective imagination."
Wendy Doniger
A
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to be oneself."
Anna Freud
A
"Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin."
Anna Freud
A
"Freedom from fear is less important than freedom for growth."
Anna Freud
D
"The development of the individual is a process of becoming independent."
D.W. Winnicott
B
"We often confuse freedom from constraint with freedom to choose meaningfully."
Bruno Bettelheim
M
"Freedom does not lie in the absence of constraints but in conscious participation in meaningful patterns."
Mircea Eliade
V
"The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Victor Frankl
V
"Freedom is in small things."
Victor Frankl
V
"No one can take away our psychological freedom, our ability to choose our internal response."
Victor Frankl
V
"The greatest freedom is the freedom of attitude."
Victor Frankl
V
"The freedom of will constitutes the basic fact of human existence."
Victor Frankl
V
"Freedom of will may be restricted, but not taken away."
Victor Frankl
V
"When internal freedom is lost, all other freedoms become irrelevant."
Victor Frankl
V
"My will is not free if it cannot choose the good, but it is still free if it can choose the good."
Victor Frankl
V
"The last vestige of freedom cannot be taken; it can only be surrendered."
Victor Frankl
K
"When we stop trying to be everything to everyone, we become everything to ourselves."
Karen Horney
K
"We are trapped not by our circumstances, but by our beliefs about our circumstances."
Karen Horney
K
"We create our own prisons through unconscious patterns."
Karen Horney