Free Choice Quotes - Page 2

• We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Choices

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• If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.

  James Madison

  Heart, People, Choices

  James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (1984). “The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813”

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• When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, People, Choices

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.194, AK Press

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• I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

  Jose Mujica

  Men, Choices, May

  "Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president" by Vladimir Hernandez, www.bbc.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Choices, Wish

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.350, Fortress Press

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• What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Choices, Soul, Morality

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• The dignity of man is in free choice.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Men, Choices

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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• As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.

  J.R. Ward

  Destiny, Choices, Doe

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.136, Penguin

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• Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

  Vera Nazarian

  Exercise, Choices, Given

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• If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mean, People, Choices

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• And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

  Anne Holm

  Lonely, Eye, Men

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Choices, Would Be

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.787, Hackett Publishing

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• With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.

  Ron Wyden

  Loss, Choices, Care

  "Is This How You Want Your Senate To Do Business?" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Government

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

  Eric Schmidt

  Successful, Exercise, Technology

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

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• Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Inspirational, Christian, Character

  John Cunningham Geikie (1891). “The Life and Words of Christ”

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

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• Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.

  Ken Schoolland

  Life, Sacrifice, Goal

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• We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Army, Night

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Criteria, Absolutes

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “Towards a Critical Theory of Society: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.52, Routledge

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• However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work are other than those preshaped by a repressive reality principle, then satisfaction in daily work is only a rare privilege.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Selection

  "Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud".

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato”, p.204

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