Jean Piaget Quotes

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free.

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.