Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.

The most fundamental aspect of your humanity is your ability to make choices and stand by those choices, what Viktor Frankl called the last of human freedoms, “To choose one’s own way.” Choosing your own way has at least two key meanings: making decisions about what you want to happen and choosing how you respond to what does happen.

Aucune force ne peut supprimer cet ultime choix, ne peut priver l’être humain de cette forme-là de la liberté, qui lui donne, de fait, sa qualité d’« être humain », qui lui permet, en toutes circonstances, de rester humain. La contrainte (et donc la détermination par le milieu) ne peut jamais être totale : « L’on peut tout enlever à l’homme, au camp de concentration, excepté une chose : l’ultime liberté de choisir telle ou telle attitude devant les conditions qui lui sont imposées » (Frankl,

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end.

The only clue to what man can do is what he has done.