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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"Freedom is the natural state of consciousness unclouded by thought."Eckhart Tolle
"Man will never be free until the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king."Helena Blavatsky
"Freedom is the natural state of consciousness when it is fully awake."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The past has no power over your present consciousness."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Awareness itself is the ultimate freedom."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Alan Watts
"What is necessary is not to hold fast to the past but to release it."Alan Watts
"We must cherish the diversity of human thought and belief."Annie Besant
"Freedom requires responsibility; these two cannot be separated."Annie Besant
"The chains that bind us are often of our own forging."Annie Besant
"The only real prison is fear; the only real freedom is love."Paramahansa Yogananda
"Freedom is the birthright of every soul."Paramahansa Yogananda
"Thinking is not merely a tool of reason; it is the instrument of freedom."Rudolf Steiner
"True freedom consists only in being able to do what one ought to do."Rudolf Steiner
"The strength of democracy is in the development of free human beings."Rudolf Steiner
"Freedom is the capacity to follow your own inner light."Rudolf Steiner
"You are responsible for everything you do, and though you may have a heredity and environment that influences heavily the way you behave, you are also responsible for changing that."Ram Dass
"The only freedom you get is freedom from yourself."Ram Dass
"Forgiveness is the doorway to freedom."Ram Dass
"Freedom is the burden of decision."Paul Tillich
"Heteronomy is the denial of freedom."Paul Tillich
"Anxiety is the price of freedom."Paul Tillich
"The future is not yet determined; human freedom co-creates it."Paul Tillich
"The path to freedom is through understanding the nature of the mind."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"True freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but the ability to choose your own."Annie Besant
"True freedom comes only through mastery of one's own nature."Helena Blavatsky
"Freedom is freedom from the illusion of needing to be different than you are."Ram Dass
"The greatest freedom is freedom from your own judgments."Ram Dass
"True freedom is not the absence of structure, but the right structure."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Freedom is the ability to become yourself."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin