Top 100 Choice Freedom Quotes
#1. What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?
Murray Rothbard
#2. Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#3. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
#4. Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.
Marilyn Ferguson
#5. Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this
in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer
and at your hands.
Jasper Fforde
#6. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
#7. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Peter Shepherd
#8. God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
William Matthews
#10. What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#11. The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
#12. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#13. In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that's their choice and their freedom. I won't judge them.
E.A.A. Wilson
#14. He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.
Ally Condie
#15. Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
Lauren Oliver
#16. The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.
Gillian Cross
#17. Stability allows a person the freedom of choice, my friend. People can pursue their dreams only when they are living in a society where survival is not threatened on a daily basis.
Amish Tripathi
#18. Freedom of choice comes at the price of intermittent insanity.
Abram Gitspof
#19. Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
John Steinbeck
#20. We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
Marc Maron
#21. Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.
Glendon Swarthout
#22. Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.
Raphael Zernoff
#23. If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.
Ai Weiwei
#24. My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.
David Rodigan
#25. Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.
Bode Miller
#26. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.
George Carlin
#28. We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other's freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.
Ellen J. Barrier
#29. To walk in this same power, however--to run with the wind and be free in our souls to live the fullest possible life, here on earth and in eternity--there is a cost. Freedom comes with a choice.
Brett Champan
#31. Today, live your life to the fullest because tomorrow is a mystery, don't enter it with regrets
Abie Sigauke
#32. The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men.
R. Alan Woods
#33. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
Ha-Joon Chang
#34. People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973,
Martin Cooper
#35. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.
Abby Espiritu
#36. The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#37. When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson Mandela
#38. We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Love.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#39. When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#40. You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
#42. I whispered to him,
You'll regret it if you let me go.
I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow'
He didn't believe me, he made his choice
&
That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.
Nikki Rowe
#43. The dignity of man is in free choice.
Max Frisch
#44. Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#45. Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
Paul Robeson
#46. To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.
Simone De Beauvoir
#47. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.
Pope Francis
#48. Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
Marty Rubin
#49. Why are you doing this?" Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother's, but every word clear. "My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her."
"Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah," Leesha said.
Peter V. Brett
#50. We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
Cornel West
#51. For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach - on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our regional commanders' force of choice for both forward presence and crisis response.
Tom Clancy
#52. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#53. I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
Dasha Zhukova
#54. Having tasted life without the pain of obligation perpetually burning him from within, he'd choose death over the return to bondage. He'd make that choice in an instant. Life as a slave was unspeakable; life as a slave who had briefly tasted freedom was unthinkable.
Ian Tregillis
#55. The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
George McGovern
#56. The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom
Nelson Mandela
#57. How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.
Judith Orloff
#58. We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
John F. Kennedy
#59. Society is the choice between freedom on someone else's terms and slavery on yours.
Charlie Jane Anders
#60. If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.
Michael Rosen
#62. Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.
Meljean Brook
#63. In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
Victoria Osteen
#64. Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your life
Financial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!
Choice has always been yours.
Manoj Arora
#65. It is in this sense that responsibility is liberty; the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
#66. Adarlan could take their freedom, it could destroy their lives and beat and whip them, it could force them into ridiculous contests, but, criminal or not, they were stil human. Dying - rather than playing in the king's game - was the only choice left to him.
Sarah J. Maas
#67. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#69. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
#70. In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
George Pierce Baker
#71. The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George Orwell
#72. Be happy.
Be happy for no reason at all.
Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative ...
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#75. As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.
Richard Dawkins
#76. Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
Boyd K. Packer
#77. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
#78. Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
David O. McKay
#79. As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.
Jeff Lindsay
#80. There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?
Louis O. Kelso
#81. Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
Immanuel Kant
#82. Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Jules Renard
#83. I wouldn't have gone if he'd made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the...the rebelliousness out of it.'
Peter nodded. 'It's easy to take the opposite path from the one you're directed to,' he said. 'It's much harder to find the right path alone.
Jack Iams
#84. In life, we tend to get what we expect. Start expecting the best. Since life is a do-it-to-yourself project, why not believe in miracles? You have the freedom of choice. Why not expect miracles to happen in your life? Make plans, work hard and expect miracles. Why? Because you can.
Mark LaMoure
#85. You cannot think of any greater gift that could come to a man or woman than the freedom of choice.
David O. McKay
#86. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#87. This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.
Jerome A. Miller
#88. We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#89. And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him ... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
Theodore Schultz
#90. 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
#91. A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.
Leena Ahmad Almashat
#92. If we blind them to The Adversary - decrease their desire for The Desire - while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.
Geoffrey Wood
#93. I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse.
Mie Hansson
#94. Anything can be a curse if it ain't a choice. If it's all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it's familiar and safe and you're afraid to do something else. Even if all you want to do is anything else.
Johnny Shaw
#95. There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#96. Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take away this freedom to choose our response. Right
Dalai Lama XIV
#98. You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#99. Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
Norman Cousins
#100. The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
