The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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