Top 100 Quotes About Freedom To Choose
#1. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
Hina Hashmi
#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. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.
Lawrence Lessig
#4. Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
Viktor E. Frankl
#5. Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
Erik Erikson
#6. It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.
Erwin McManus
#7. I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
#8. A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
Milton Friedman
#9. Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.
Mitch Albom
#10. Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.
Deepak Chopra
#11. Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#12. Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.
Jay Woodman
#13. In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.
Carol W. Greider
#14. No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
Viktor E. Frankl
#15. No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject.
Gina Wohlsdorf
#16. Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.
Amish Tripathi
#17. By properly deploying both incentives and nudges, we can improve our ability to improve people's lives, and help solve many of society's major problems. And we can do so while still insisting on everyone's freedom to choose.
Richard H. Thaler
#18. Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
John Paul Stevens
#19. Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?
Charles A. Reich
#20. People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with the freedom to choose.
Susan Meissner
#21. Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
Paulo Coelho
#22. That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
L.M. Montgomery
#23. At every moment, each person has the freedom to choose a different path, thereby changing the trajectory of his life. Nothing is set in stone.
Lauren Miller
#24. The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
Jim Butcher
#25. Today is a day of opportunity. Whatever our lot, today we have the greatest freedom possible - the freedom to choose our attitude. We make or break our today by the attitudes we choose. Whatever our situation, we can choose the climate of our heart. We can choose the garment of praise.
Ruth Myers
#26. In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess is my Freedom to choose, my Freedom to Live,and my Freedom to be Happy.-RVM
R.v.m.
#28. Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
Thomas Keating
#29. 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
#30. Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.
Jay Woodman
#31. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
Saul Bellow
#32. REFLECTION. In discussing abortion, its supporters never defend the act of abortion itself, but only the alleged right of someone to have one. They focus on the freedom to choose it, but avoid describing what is chosen.
Catholic Book Publishing Corporation
#33. You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#34. Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
#35. Competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ...
Og Mandino
#36. Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Alasdair Gray
#37. you prefer to practice zazen at home, then there are not as much rules to follow. You have the freedom to choose from the different techniques that were mentioned, from to face the wall while sitting to the walking meditation.
Anong Sasithorn
#38. Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
Barry Schwartz
#39. The freedom to choose ... means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
Caroline Knapp
#40. Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we are morally crippled.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#41. Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#42. Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Freida Pinto
#43. We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.
Chris Matakas
#44. The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.
Ludwig Von Mises
#45. You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
Viktor E. Frankl
#46. If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.
Tom Robbins
#47. Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
Tony Benn
#48. 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
#49. What is the most important thing in your life?
For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction.
Preeti Bhonsle
#50. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Judy Blume
#51. Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
Ron Wyden
#52. I wondered what it was like to live in a world with the freedom to choose. Did you somehow lose yourself, or your focus, when decisions pulled your mind in so many directions? Was it confusing, burdensome, somehow?
Sarah Domet
#53. Freedom to choose your fate is Our Father's greatest gift to man and woman." (p.55)
Dimitry Elias Leger
#55. They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.
Don Winslow
#56. There are times when God sends thunder to stir us. There are times when God sends blessings to lure us. But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as he honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.
Max Lucado
#57. If freedom of movement is to be sustainable, then our publics must see it as freedom to move to work, rather than freedom to choose the most generous benefits.
George Osborne
#58. I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.
Francois Arnaud
#59. Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
Tara Brach
#60. You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.
Rhonda Byrne
#61. When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.
Lois Lowry
#62. I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.
Moira Kelly
#63. God is love, and he designed us with the capacity to love him back. But he won't force the issue. We have the freedom to choose him or turn away. Our choice is what determines where we will go after death.
James L. Garlow
#64. Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."
Eric Hoffer
#65. It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.
Ben Moreell
#66. 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
#67. Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Viktor E. Frankl
#68. We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
Lauren Oliver
#69. Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.
Peter Huber
#70. Change your stress, before it changes you! Restore your Freedom to Choose!
Richard D. Murphy
#71. In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.
Stephen R. Covey
#72. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?
Helen Raleigh
#73. The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
John Zerzan
#74. 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
#75. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#76. You will eventually face a greater truth, willingly or unwillingly. Those who willingly choose to see a greater truth now are given potential freedom through enlightenment, while those who choose to blind themselves are resigned to slavery through ignorance.
Derek Doepker
#77. Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Louis Sullivan
#78. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
#79. Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
Alan Dershowitz
#80. I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free...
Sanhita Baruah
#81. To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille
#82. Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being
Mooji
#83. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.
Paulo Coelho
#84. The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
Mark Steyn
#85. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.
Thomas Szasz
#86. Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?
Lauren Oliver
#87. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision
Soren Kierkegaard
#88. Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Mother Teresa
#90. Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#91. Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.
Ann Aguirre
#92. 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
#93. Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#94. Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating values, and must go on to develop appropriate techniques for realizing the values and for combating those who, for whatever reason, choose to ignore the facts or deny the values.
Aldous Huxley
#95. We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.
Richard M. Cohen
#96. You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
Scott Howard Phillips
#97. When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.
Brandon Sanderson
#98. There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
William M. Bulger
#99. It is better to accept the inevitable with energy. Well then, if I have not chosen up till now, now I choose. That is freedom. Having chosen, I am free. Somewhere in my memory
Samuel R. Delany
#100. Freedom can be frightening," she whispered, half asleep. "You're only free to choose how you're going to not be free.
C.D. Reiss
