Karl Barth Quotes

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

Well you don’t have to do it.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I only have control over what I do.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.