Quotes About Agency

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.

On peut toujours faire quelque chose de ce que l'on a fait de nous. »

I can change the story. I am the story.

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other's imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us

This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free: condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once cast into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois: c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres Egisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being.

Man is condemned to be free.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning." – Jean-Paul Sartre

Je ne suis ni le maître ni l'esclave, Jupiter. Je suis ma liberté! À peine m'as-tu créé que j'ai cessé de t'appartenir

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois : c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres, Égisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency