Rajneesh Quotes

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

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

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

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

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

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

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.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

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

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.