Top 100 Freedom Is Choice Quotes
#3. True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
Meryl Streep
#5. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Karl Marx
#6. 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
#7. Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
Rumi
#8. 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
#9. The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George Orwell
#10. In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
Dalai Lama
#11. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
Matthew Kelly
#12. Consuming what is natural, good and untainted frees you, protects you, and realigns you with what is natural, peaceful and safe.
Bryant McGill
#13. When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
Auliq Ice
#14. 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
#15. America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.
Mikhail Saakashvili
#16. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#17. Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.
Rabbi Akiva
#18. AWAY OF EASING THE BURDEN THAT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IMPOSES IS to make decisions about when to make decisions. These are what Cass Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit call second-order decisions. One kind of second-order decision is the decision to follow a rule.
Barry Schwartz
#19. 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
#20. Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.
Milan Kundera
#21. Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.
Meljean Brook
#22. 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
#23. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#24. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.
Lillian B. Rubin
#25. How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.
Judith Orloff
#26. I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
Rupert Murdoch
#27. The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
H.G.Wells
#28. Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them
and then, the opportunity to choose.
C. Wright Mills
#29. You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
Jonah Hill
#30. Freedom of choice is possible. Life is going to unfold however it does: pleasant or unpleasant, disappointing or thrilling, expected or unexpected, all of the above! What a relief it would be to know that whatever wave comes along, we can ride it out with grace [p. 35].
Sylvia Boorstein
#31. When a woman is pregnant, her freedom to choose her future for herself - and to act on that choice, whatever it may be - is the most powerful express of human agency there can be.
Ann Furedi
#32. Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
Vahid Asghari
#34. Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.
Holly Grigg-Spall
#35. As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#36. The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union
that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.
Bruce Rauner
#37. As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.
Tom Hodgkinson
#38. I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses)
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
#40. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. 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
#42. It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia
#43. The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
Gloria Steinem
#44. Everything that happens here, every choice involving you is mine to make, not yours. So from this moment on, you're to stop making decisions, and enjoy the freedom that comes with that."
Sara Fawkes
#45. You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
Carolyn Crane
#46. Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
David O. McKay
#47. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#48. It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
Andrea Dworkin
#49. Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.
R.N. Prasher
#50. That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
Ayn Rand
#51. Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
Vidya Balan
#52. when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. 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
#54. Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives, over like well behaved puppets on a string ... slavery is returning by choice.
L.M. Fields
#55. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?
Matt Shea
#56. It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.
Honor Raconteur
#57. America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free.
Bryant McGill
#58. Organizing among agency workers is structurally impossible, and the enforced atomization of the agency worker is rephrased as 'individual choice', 'your freedom'.
Nina Power
#59. Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
John Steinbeck
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. The choice to believe is yours. It's the only thing that truly is.
J.S.B. Morse
#64. Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
Vera Nazarian
#65. Fashion is a lifestyle, it's a choice,it's a freedom of expression.You have to live it, you have to love it. You have to breathe it. Life's all about love and glamour.
Christina Aguilera
#66. There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
David Hume
#67. Today in the early Twenty-First Century, we Americans are once again faced with the same basic choice: liberty or tyranny, freedom or servitude. However, the attitude of far too many Americans towards our problems is one of both ignorance and apathy: "I don't know and I don't care.
Chris Hambleton
#69. I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
Jonah Hill
#70. The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
L. Neil Smith
#71. Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.
George Gilder
#72. 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
#73. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.
Donna Lynn Hope
#74. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
#76. 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
#77. As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
Milan Kundera
#78. IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
Nadia Sahari
#79. Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?
June Jordan
#80. A nation of underachievers is easier to control than a society that excels.
Robyn Heirtzler
#81. Choice is one level of freedom, but design is a higher
Ron Davison
#82. We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.
Your attitude is your choice!
Lorii Myers
#83. Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
Rajneesh
#84. The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.
Kenneth Waltz
#85. 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
#86. Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.
Johan Norberg
#87. Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless spontaneity. It is such a freedom. Choice is such a burden.
Rajneesh
#88. This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.
Deborah Wiles
#89. People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
Jeanette Winterson
#90. The dignity of man is in free choice.
Max Frisch
#91. Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out.
Augustine Of Hippo
#92. If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
Salman Rushdie
#93. Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
W. H. Auden
#94. Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
Michael Moore
#95. The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
#96. The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#97. 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
#98. In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice. In a world of fixed future, no person is responsible. The rooms are already arranged.
Alan Lightman
#99. One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#100. 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
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