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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
Viktor E. Frankl
#7. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
Erik Erikson
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Mother Teresa
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
Milton Friedman
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.
Deepak Chopra
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.
Viktor E. Frankl
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.
Raphael Zernoff
#42. What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
Archibald MacLeish
#43. 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
#44. Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.
Martha Beck
#45. Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to" blurs awfully fast.
Peggy Orenstein
#46. It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Mary Caroline Richards
#47. The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
Robert J. Wilson
#48. 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
#49. God gives us the freedom to do great evil, if we choose. Then he uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what he chooses.
Orson Scott Card
#50. 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
#51. Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Paulo Coelho
#52. 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
#53. No wonder modern humanity, even as it loudly proclaims its freedom and power to choose, is really an impotent herd drive this way and that, paralyzed by the disconnectedness of it all. It's just one damn thing after another.
Stanley Hauerwas
#54. Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
George H. W. Bush
#55. A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly ... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
Edmund Burke
#56. 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
#57. What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.
Deepak Chopra
#58. Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.
Oswald Mosley
#59. 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
#60. Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings.
Neale Donald Walsch
#61. I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John G. Diefenbaker
#62. As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.
Leo Buscaglia
#63. That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
L.M. Montgomery
#64. For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#65. It's ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine
Pittacus Lore
#66. Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor W. Adorno
#67. People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. The majority choose the latter.
Svetlana Alexievich
#68. There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.
Amos Oz
#69. 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
#70. What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.
Emma Goldman
#71. Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
B.K.S. Iyengar
#73. The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
Jim Butcher
#74. My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.
Pope John Paul II
#76. 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
#77. If "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," then there is no purpose or grand cosmic scheme to life beyond what we choose to impose or believe. To some this is cynicism. For the Chaos Magician, it is a breath of dizzying freedom.
Phil Hine
#78. We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
Alain De Botton
#79. So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.
Naomi Ragen
#80. The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
#81. This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.
Ludwig Von Mises
#82. I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
Paulo Coelho
#83. 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
#84. In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.
Emily Post
#85. We have the freedom of choice, to choose what's right.
Fennel Hudson
#86. 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.
#88. Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
Thomas Keating
#89. We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.
SARK
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.
Bryant McGill
#94. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
Saul Bellow
#95. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain ... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin
#96. No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
Seth Godin
#97. If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
John Boyd Orr
#98. The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#99. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.
J.M. Coetzee
#100. There is not an animal on this earth that if given the choice between freedom or captivity, would not choose to be free.
Patricia Engel
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