Free Choice Quotes

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred Armand Montapert

Law, Choices, Natural

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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Inspirational, Death

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Children, Greatest Fear, Role Models

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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred Armand Montapert

Responsibility, Choices, Express Yourself

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God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Peter Kreeft

Writing, Choices, Stories

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If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

David Eagleman

Decision, Choices, Illusion

David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.23, Vintage

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Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Children, Freedom, Giving

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You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

Martin Luther

Choices, Scripture, Type

Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

Eric Idle

Choices, Want

"Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

Julian Baggini

Choices, Facts, Argument

"Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2010.

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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Camille Paglia

Suicide, Thinking, Drug Use

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

Maria Montessori

Choices, Process, Highest

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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

Bayazid Bastami

Choices, Ignorant, Desire

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It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

Jacques Ellul

Jesus, Son, Should Have

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If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

Stephen L. Carter

Believe, People, Choices

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Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Peter Kreeft

Choices, Catholic, Feelings

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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

Herbert Marcuse

Choices, Toil, Doe

Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.

Allen W. Wood

Silly, Philosophical, Sea

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

James Madison

Government, Choices, Citizens

James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Creativity, People, Choices

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The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Children, Men, Choices

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All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in.

Liz Miller

Roots, Choices, May

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[I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child's school or joining a union.

Charles Krauthammer

Children, Party, School

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An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse.

Strom Thurmond

Race, Law, People

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