Freedom

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.
George Gurdjieff

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi

He who is brave is free
Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey

But apparently we haven''t got the energy. We go to another to give us energy. The psychiatrists, by talking to him you feel much more relieved - you follow? - confession and all the rest of it. Always depending on somebody else. And so that dependence inevitably brings great conflict, disorder. So one has to begin to understand the depth and the greatness of freedom, one must begin quite near. And the nearest is you. As long as there is you and me there is no freedom. As long as you have your prejudice, and I have my prejudice, your experience, my experience, etc. etc. and so on, so on, there is no freedom. We can express, we can criticize each other, we can do all that, that is what is called freedom. The right to think what you like. But freedom, the greatness of freedom, and the enormity, the dignity, the beauty of it is in oneself when there is completely order. And that order comes only when we are a light to ourselves
J. Krishnamurti

The world will be free when the last king is strangled by the entrails of the last priest.
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