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