Quotes About Choice

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

A man is the origin of his action.

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.