Human Choice Quotes

#1. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Scripture sees hell as self-chosen ... Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

J.I. Packer

#3. You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

Alan Keyes

#4. Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.

James Carroll

#5. The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

R.C. Sproul

#6. Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Quentin Crisp

#7. Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).

Nancy Pearcey

#8. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Lee R. Raymond

#9. I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field ... The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

Jerry Brown

#10. The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

#11. But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.

Gary Chapman

#12. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#13. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.

Steve Solomon

#14. In his essay, 'Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

Henry Kissinger

#15. The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.

Robert Fritz

#16. Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.

Hannah Arendt

#17. When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

James Dashner

#18. Pro-choice is the only way to be
because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

Julia Child

#19. Who, then, is the invincible human being? One who can be disconcerted by nothing that lies outside the sphere of choice.

Epictetus

#20. 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

#21. Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.

Taslima Nasrin

#22. We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

Terence McKenna

#23. We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

Pema Chodron

#24. Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat politics as if it were a pale imitation of the market, democracy will, indeed, make no sense.

Paul Starr

#25. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.

T.F. Hodge

#26. It's choice that makes us human.

Jodi Picoult

#27. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

#28. It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

Al Gore

#29. A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

Grant Bowler

#30. I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Bruce Greenwood

#31. Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

Blaise Pascal

#32. Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

John Christopher

#33. The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

George Horace Lorimer

#34. As human beings we have a choice: we can resist the change and crumble or we can accept the change, experience the feelings they provoke and then consciously respond with the true light of our power. 3.

Robin S. Sharma

#35. Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting
both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

Ursula Hegi

#36. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#37. The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Diane Duane

#38. Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

#39. Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Liv Ullmann

#40. Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Aung San

#41. We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Sam Harris

#42. The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

John Maeda

#43. Human agency, the ability to affect the surrounding world, may be a result not so simply of conscious choice - but instead a result of training unconscious habits beforehand.

Quelle Wikipedia

#44. Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#45. Species are being wiped out every day. Do we want to live with this or don't we? That is really our choice. And I think that human beings, by nature, want to preserve themselves. But right now, we're so preoccupied by other stuff, and we're not addressing the issues, which are our priorities.

Horst Rechelbacher

#46. 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

#47. Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

Sandra Bernhard

#48. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.

Terryl L. Givens

#49. Choice, what people really want, is the most important thing. Choosing the life you want, making your own choices-that is what defines you as human.

Megan Frampton

#50. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Garrett Hardin

#51. Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Peter J. Carroll

#52. I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Padgett Powell

#53. One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.

Dennis E. Adonis

#54. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality

Jordan Petersen

#55. Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

Michael Scott

#56. 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

#57. Given the fact that intuition is about receiving information and knowledge, something that every human being frequently experiences, the choice becomes ours as to whether or not we honor the incoming information we receive.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#58. As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.

Linda Hogan

#59. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Jim Butcher

#60. We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Richard Paul Evans

#61. The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

Samuel Goldwyn

#62. I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

Frances McDormand

#63. One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Robert Morgan

#64. Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.

Deepak Chopra

#65. No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.

Me.

Alicen Grey

#66. The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

Deepak Chopra

#67. The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting mythic power: to embrace the planet named after, rather than the madness ascribed to, the god of war.

Carl Sagan

#68. A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is.

Chaim Potok

#69. The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Irvin D. Yalom

#70. Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

Mark Twain

#71. My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved.

Jaron Lanier

#72. Free will, that bitch of a thing. Given the freedom to choose, we human beings will always make the wrong choice, every damn time.

Gemma Files

#73. You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

Bill Henson

#74. 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

#75. A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose. I know now. That a human has to make it with other humans ... before he can make it with himself.

Ken Kesey

#76. The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...

Henry Lindell

#77. Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

Stephen King

#78. the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.

Sean Patrick

#79. 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

C. G. Jung

#80. Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Michael Novak

#81. My mother and I are in the worst fight we've ever had, one that tests the concept of unconditional love, not to mention basic human decency. And the thing is, no one is right exactly. We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

Lena Dunham

#82. The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

#83. Human heart is much more capable than we give it credit for. Being able to love again is a choice

Karina Halle

#84. ...human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to how to behave, it's just that for many people the situation is the key determinate in that choice.

Laurence Rees

#85. God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

John Piper

#86. Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#87. Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

Dalai Lama

#88. The doctors snap at the nurses, who snap at the patient care assistants, who snap at the cleaners, who snap at the patients who are too sick to respond. Those at the bottom of the heap have no choice but to be good. No one can doubt the virtue of the helpless.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#89. The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

Mark Horton

#90. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

#91. What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

Bryant McGill

#92. We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.
Your attitude is your choice!

Lorii Myers

#93. If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Albert Camus

#94. You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

Frederick Lenz

#95. Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp.

Marcel Proust

#96. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#97. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

Miguel Ruiz

#98. True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Robert McKee

#99. Free will isn't always about choice; often weakness plays the game

Jeyn Roberts

#100. All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Jack Kevorkian