„By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego.“

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Tags:

„By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.“
— Mikhail Bakunin
„A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.“
— Roald Dahl
„When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.“
— George Orwell
„But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom — freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.“
— Vladimir Lenin