The Freedom Gates movement is dedicated to spreading knowledge and understanding of freedom, and to promoting freedom as the in-born right of every human being.

What is freedom? Freedom is to be with people and yet be able to express yourself freely. It is the privilage of enjoying the company of other human beings and yet being unrestricted by it. In this sense freedom is the foundation of one's social happiness. It is the most valuable possession of a human being; in fact our only true possession.

Freedom plays important role in our personal relationships. However, this site and this movement are not about psychology and we are not interested in solving personal relationships problems. We are interested in understanding and promoting freedom from the larger social perspective. We are interested in political aspects of freedom.

The freedom we possess, or are robbed from by others, which we want to discuss here manifests itself in three different dimensions. The social freedom is the subject of civil laws and customs governing the society. The spiritual freedom relates to religious ideas shaping the society. The material freedom relates to the economics, to the property, tax and other laws aimed at defining the economical foundation of the society. Those three aspects of personal freedom in society are all interconnected but it is convenient to debate them separately.

Freedom must be understood and taught in practical way. It is a truism that living in a society requires that an individual sacrifices a part of own freedom for the common benefit. The point is that what an individual gains by belonging to the society should more than compensate the sacrifices individual makes for the society. This objective is more sensible, more attainable and more practical than what many false prophets would want us to believe.

Freedom is more important than love, justice, morality or democracy. Freedom is the only sustainable moral principle and the only political objective devoid of self-illusion. We can build a just society on the principal of freedom while all attempts to build a better society on other principles have failed. (See note on 'Freedom versus other political objectives')

It is the highest morality to protect your own freedom and defend freedom of your fellow human beings. It is a crime to infringe on other people's freedom and it is the highest crime to take somebody's freedom away. Again, those statements relate to the political reality and the larger social scale. They are not meant to intrude into the world of personal relationships.