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

— Sigmund Freud

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„Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.“
— Sadhguru
„Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.“
— Rollo May
„Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.“
— Albert Einstein
„This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt