Quotes About Agency

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

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.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

"I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog."

Life is no blame game as you're given the freedom to make your own choices .

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.