ethical freedom Quotes

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.