Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-32182236-20170725221055

Starscream1998 wrote: No, Toriel calls him out on this by saying he could have taken 1 soul and travelled across the barrier to collect more but he didn't out of cowardice, it has nothing to do with not wanting to free the Monsters. "If you really wanted to free our kind... You could have gone through the barrier after you got ONE SOUL... ...taken six SOULs from the humans, then come back and freed everyone peacefully. But instead, you made everyone live in despair. Because you would rather wait here, meekly hoping another human never arrives."-Toriel

She's definelty saying Asgore didn't want to free monsters at all. The reason is mostly likely because he knows it would start another war-Like Gerson suggests in the Genocide Route.