Quotes About Freedom Of Choice

#1. 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

#2. Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

#3. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. People are born into this world with the freedom of choice and, surely, given the right mindset, this divinely endowed gift can grant them the power to acquire anything they desire.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#7. Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

Arenda L. Wright Allen

#8. When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Randal Marlin

#9. A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Thomas Merton

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

Benjamin Spock

#13. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#14. I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

J. Paul Getty

#15. There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

David Hume

#16. I live here. I work here. Why would I have an issue with America? This is the only country that gives you freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of choice. You don't get that elsewhere. Nobody wants to leave America. People die to come here.

Najibullah Zazi

#17. I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Zainab Salbi

#18. A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

Betty Ford

#19. 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

#20. Freedom of choice comes at the price of intermittent insanity.

Abram Gitspof

#21. The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.

Barack Obama

#22. We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Marc Maron

#23. Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.

Glendon Swarthout

#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. Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

George Carlin

#27. Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise - freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view - that all ideas are determined by material relationships - is the materialist superstition.

George Gilder

#28. [Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

David O. McKay

#29. Most people would like to think that they are independent thinkers and that they value freedom, but they actually want freedom from choice instead of freedom of choice.

Patrick King

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Amy Tan

#33. 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

#34. We have the freedom of choice, to choose what's right.

Fennel Hudson

#35. Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something as compelling as love.

Ted Dekker

#36. Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

George Carlin

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

Henry Lindell

#38. My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

Amanda Filipacchi

#39. 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

#40. It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

Kevin Lynch

#41. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

John Irving

#42. If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

Henry James

#43. Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Jenny Holzer

#44. Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Madeleine L'Engle

#45. Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

James Patterson

#46. Watts said that real freedom was not freedom of choice but freedom from choice.

Gil Friedman

#47. Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

Phil Crane

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Lorii Myers

#52. I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#53. 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

#54. I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

Dasha Zhukova

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#58. I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy

Roy Jenkins

#59. The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

Rebecca Solnit

#60. Be wary of those with overpowering presence. It is usually a one-way street taking away your freedom of choice. Gravity is compelling particularly when it is a Black Hole.

R.N. Prasher

#61. The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

George Carlin

#62. The idea of Original Sin - of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available - is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.

Nathaniel Branden

#63. 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

#64. I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

William The Silent

#65. 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

#66. Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Rabbi Akiva

#67. 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

#68. I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

George McGovern

#69. 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

#70. I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

Mary Balogh

#71. I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Corliss Lamont

#72. I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

Margaret Thatcher

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

Tom Petty

#76. Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

Neil Young

#77. I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Sandra Bullock

#78. People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.

Andrew Greeley

#79. 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

#80. You cannot think of any greater gift that could come to a man or woman than the freedom of choice.

David O. McKay

#81. Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Marc Riboud

#82. We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

Ronald Reagan

#83. Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

David O. McKay

#84. 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

#85. It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play that is preoccupied with the whole question of freedom of choice and its consequences.4

William Shakespeare

#86. 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

#87. So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Mike Norton

#88. 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

#89. As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

Rula Jebreal

#90. The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. 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

#92. I dream of a society that is continuously creating knowledge, where each individual is a part of this creation, where youngsters can pursue courses with freedom of choice, where technology is used for universal access of education and yet the importance of the Guru is retained.

Narendra Modi

#93. All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

Akiva Ben Joseph

#94. 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

#95. You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

Jonah Hill

#96. Your true freedom is making your own decisions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#97. True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

Steve Hagen

#98. I am not yours, she thought. I am my own.

Ruth Warburton

#99. 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

#100. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Donna Lynn Hope