Quotes About Choice

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Man cannot choose his duties.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Animals like novelty if they can choose to investigate it; they fear novelty if you shove it in their faces.

At the ATM they ask if you'd like to conduct your business in English or Spanish. I suggest you try Spanish, because your account balance will look much better in pesos.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.