Freedom Quotes

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

"To be free in the deepest sense is to overcome the prejudices of childhood."

"True freedom exists only in the freedom of thought."

"The capacity to influence what we experience is deeply rooted in human agency."

"A mind constrained by dogma is a mind imprisoned."

"The greatest luxury is the freedom to think without constraint."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the right to choose one's constraints."

"We cannot live only on what we have already discovered. We need the freedom to explore."

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

"Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of human progress."

"Freedom is born from understanding natural laws."

"Freedom is felt when the controlling relation between a person and the environment is acknowledged."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a complete negation of it."

"Freedom of the mind requires not just the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts."

"Psychoanalysis has not solved the problem of freedom."

"Freedom is found in understanding the causes of behavior."

"Human beings are not born with a need to be free; this need is created by social contingencies."

"A man might as well try to stand on his head as to try to prevent woman from rising."

"I have found freedom not in the absence of responsibility, but in its acceptance."

"The pursuit of knowledge should never be constrained by prejudice or tradition."

"The will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained."

"We are not free when our behavior is controlled by punishment; we are only free when shaped by positive consequences."

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."

"I refuse to be limited by the expectations of others."

"True equality means that women have the same opportunities and choices as men."

"Women must never accept limitations placed upon them by society."

"We are not simply at the mercy of our biology or our environment. We actively shape the events that affect our lives."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraints; it is the capacity to choose one's response within whatever constraints exist."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"Analysis does not aim at making pathological reactions impossible, but at giving the patient's ego freedom to choose one way or the other."