Top 38 Illusion Of Choice Quotes
#1. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.
John Dunn
#2. I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
Geoffrey Wood
#3. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
#4. People like the illusion of choice. Gives them comfort in these strange times.
Chuck Wendig
#5. The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#6. Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.
Steve Ochs
#7. The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.
Veronica Roth
#8. In general, it's not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they're looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc ...
Geoffrey Wood
#9. Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?
Lynne Truss
#10. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.
Johnny Rich
#11. True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!
Jacques Ellul
#12. I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and
without illusion.
Erich Fromm
#14. You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.
T.F. Hodge
#16. Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???
Deyth Banger
#17. You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.
Lionel Suggs
#18. Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be passengers, no more real than model trains.
Nick Harkaway
#19. It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?
Eckhart Tolle
#20. There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
T.F. Hodge
#21. The life is not limited to the external reality but the external life, has been formed for the human's experience. The time you feel you are done with all the experiences of the external life, you have a choice to move inward.
Roshan Sharma
#22. 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
#23. What is there left to understand? Choice is an illusion. Freedom is conceit. The hands that reach out to guide your every step, your every thought, come not from the gods, for they are no less deluded than we - no, my friends, those hands come to each of us ... from each of us.
Steven Erikson
#24. 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
#25. Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely.
T.F. Hodge
#26. We're to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?"
"To me it does, yes," says Merek. "And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.
Melinda Salisbury
#27. Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends
that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
#28. The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...
Henry Lindell
#29. When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.
Deepak Chopra
#31. The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
Bee Wilson
#32. However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.
Max Weber
#33. All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
Isaac Asimov
#34. And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not illusions, their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choice of all the other men and women deciding in that moment?
Kevin Powers
#36. The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
Marianne Williamson
#37. He reasoned that 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
#38. I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
