Quotes About Choice

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

Das Rechtschreibprogramm kann nicht denken [...]. Wenn Sie es dem Rechtschreibprogramm überlassen, über ihr Leben zu bestimmen, dann könnten Sie auch gleich würfeln.

A uno le gustaría seguir sintiendo cierto respeto por cualquier persona que prefiere la muerte al deshonor

Creía que la historia de nuestra vida es nuestra para edificarla como deseemos, dentro de las restricciones impuestas por el mundo real e incluso contra ellas

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

admiro la discreción en los demás. Si tuviera otra vida, elegiría ser un hombre discreto y de confianza. Pero esta es la vida que tengo, la que me ha tocado en suerte. Soy, por desgracia, lo que soy.

War is about: compelling a choice on someone who would not otherwise make it.

Gracias por venir, Simón, pero no debes volver. Tienes que dejarme hacer lo que debo hacer.

Es que no quiero ser este niño, Simón! Quiero ser yo en la próxima vida, pero no quiero ser este niño. ¿Será posible? –Según las reglas, no puedes elegir. Tienes que ser el que eres y nadie más. Pero tú nunca te atuviste a las reglas ¿no es cierto?

Este no es un mundo posible –dice–. Es el único. Si eso lo convierte en el mejor o no, no debemos decidirlo ni usted ni yo.

In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, will belong to the past. But now is not too late. Now he must do something

from that moment in June 1973 I decided to accept the total contradiction that everything from the Big Bang to the end of time is preordained in every sense and that we are totally free to do whatever the fuck we want.

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.

I believe there's a hand that guides us. It just isn't always a gentle one. Or one that seems fair at the time. But I dunno, I try to trust in it now. When I freak, I just try to... shit, I guess trust in it. Because at the end of the day, what else can you do? Choice only gets you so far. Reasoning and planning too. The rest... it's up to someone else. Where we end up, who we know, what happens to the people we love... we don't have a lot of control over any of it.

Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to pick your path because the way you went was decided for you. Free will was such bullshit. -Vishous's thoughts

Fuck. Me, Vishous Breathed. I will so pass on that, Lassiter muttered.

Well . . . in the words of Vishous, want in one hand, shit in the other? See what you get most of.

he knew on some level he changed the course of his life. And you could do that, couldn't you, he thought as he put the RAZR back in his pocket. you could choose some paths and not others. Not always, of course. At times destiny just drove you to a destination and dropped your ass off and that was that. But on occasion you were able to pick the address. And if you had half a brain, no matter how hard it was or how wierd it felt, you went into the house. And found yourself.

As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.

You want to poof it or ride back with me?