Quotes About Choice

Ai xu?ng h?a ng?c ??u có th? hát lên: Tôi Ä'ã s?ng theo ý tôi.

Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".

Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.

I will not serve"—

Good theology is not the knowledge of theology but the knowledge of God. Bad theology is the theology of the theologian who died and went to Heaven and at the gates of Heaven God offered him the choice between Heaven and a theology lecture on Heaven, and he chose the lecture.

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

Tempting is not forcing.

The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.

The more willing you are for him to make a free choice, the freer he will feel. This can be especially difficult with subordinates, who are often conditioned to feel as though they must go along. But you can still help by creating the time and safety for them to develop their own sense of vision.

knowing freedom was dangerous.

Of course I enjoy this life! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go.

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

You can keep on assigning blame here, there and everywhere, but when it comes right down to it, we're responsible for what we do ourselves.

but the easiest way isn't necessarily the true one.

Free won't is true freedom of will. Freedom from the will of ego-mind.

The freedom to choose not to choose. Choosing nothing instead of something.

We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?

Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In these circumstances one cannot say that to choose to die quickly is obviously irrational.

When history looks back, do you want to be counted among the oppressors? Or among the liberators? You've got to make that choice.

I am putting out the brown suit, sir.' 'No, I think I'll wear the blue with the faint red stripe.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'But I rather fancy myself in it.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'Oh, all right, have it your own way.' 'Very good, sir. Thank you, sir.

When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequence.