Quotes About Freedom

Qué es, en realidad, el hombre? Es el ser que siempre decide lo que es. Es quien ha inventado las cámaras de gas, pero también el que ha entrado en ellas con paso firme, musitando una oración.

A human being is a finite thing, and his freedom is restricted. It is not freedom from conditions,but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

verja del campo y un flamante camión, de color aluminio

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.

freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance

man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

O bien se reconoce la libertad decisoria del hombre a favor o en contra de los hombres o toda educación es una ilusión.

La libertad no es la última palabra. La libertad es una parte de la historia y la mitad de la verdad. La libertad es la cara negativa de cualquier fenómeno humano, cuya cara positiva es la responsabilidad. De hecho, la libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

Whatever our future may hold: We still want to say "yes" to life, Because one day the time will come— Then we will be free! If the prisoners of Buchenwald, tortured and worked and starved nearly to death, could find some hope in those lyrics despite their unending suffering, Frankl asks us, shouldn't we, living far more comfortably, be able to say "Yes" to life in spite of everything life brings us?

La libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom-which cannot be taken away-that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Nos embrujaba la belleza de la naturaleza, de la que el cautiverio nos privó durante tanto tiempo.

Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)

proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And

the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.