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 highest stage of moral development is characterized not by blind obedience but by autonomous moral reasoning."
Lawrence Kohlberg
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"The secure child is free; the insecure child is trapped in vigilance."
Mary Ainsworth
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"Secure individuals are paradoxically more able to be independent and autonomous."
John Bowlby
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"Attachment is not about dependency; it is about the foundation for healthy autonomy."
John Bowlby
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints; it is the choice of which constraints to accept."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"We cannot force people to be moral; we can only create conditions for moral growth."
Lawrence Kohlberg
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Viktor Frankl
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"Freedom is not the last of man's privileges; it is his last responsibility."
Viktor Frankl
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"No one can take away my freedom to choose my own attitude."
Viktor Frankl
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"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."
Viktor Frankl
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"Freedom of will is the right to choose one's attitude in any circumstance."
Viktor Frankl
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"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."
Viktor Frankl
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"The essence of existence is freedom, and freedom's essence is choice."
Viktor Frankl
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"Freedom is not the absence of conditions, but rather the ability to choose one's attitude toward those conditions."
Viktor Frankl
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"The only true freedom man has is the freedom to choose his attitude."
Viktor Frankl
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"Freedom is not the absence of restrictions but the ability to choose one's restrictions."
Viktor Frankl
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"We are not robots; we have the freedom to choose our response to any circumstance."
Viktor Frankl
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"The ability to choose one's attitude is the last freedom available to us."
Viktor Frankl
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"Between every stimulus and response lies our freedom to choose."
Viktor Frankl
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"When we cannot change our external circumstances, we are free to change our internal response."
Viktor Frankl
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"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose how we respond to life."
Viktor Frankl
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"Learning to be free means learning to be open."
Carl Rogers
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"I like to be free to be myself and to make my own mistakes and to learn from my own experience."
Carl Rogers
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Carl Rogers
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"The freedom to choose becomes the freedom to be ourselves."
Carl Rogers
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"The highest form of freedom is responsibility."
Carl Rogers
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"The most important thing is to follow your own path, not the path others expect of you."
Carl Rogers
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"To be securely attached is to be free to become oneself."
Mary Ainsworth
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion"
Abraham Maslow
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"The individual's only real responsibility is to arrive at his own definition of himself"
Abraham Maslow