Quotes About Agency

Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate

I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do.

Phryne always existed as a still, self-possessed point in a maelstrom. Usually she had created the maelstrom herself.

Better than being slave to a man who has no regard for me other than a broodmare for his children. (Rowena) True. I should hate to be a broodmare for a man. (Stryder)

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigoraring and a frightening realization.

che significa che siamo liberi di prendere delle decisioni, se il nostro comportamento non fa che seguire le leggi della natura?

what does it mean, our being free to make decisions, if our behavior does nothing but follow the predetermined laws of nature?

After working for the agency and observing the miscalculations and overt corruption, I've found it necessary to expose the exploitative actions carried out in the name of "helping children." Because we do live in a world where parents abuse their children, it is imperative to acknowledge that the agency tasked with protecting these children

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

People create their own little hells. They don't need my help

Alas, we can't control other people. We can only control ourselves.

Tinkie had insisted on, and paid for, the frosted-glass door that said Delaney Detective Agency. Classic noir. The only classy thing about our digs.

As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the impression of agency, even to their authors. William Blake wrote of his works "tho I call them Mine I know they are not Mine," and characterized his process of writing as a kind of dictation, "without Premeditation or even against my Will." Musicians sometimes speak in exactly the same way.

When the poor man loose control of the best in himself... it ain't his fault at all, it is the fault of people who go 'round making poppits of other poor people.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Humans for the most part are unwary victims of the degree to which they have been controlled while at the same time purported to have freedom but in fact it is basically an illusion.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.