Quotes About Choice

Dado que no puedes hacer lo que quieres, pregúntate qué puedes hacer».

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

The larger lesson is that technological development does not necessarily mean civilized values ~~ we all have to remain on guard. Humans, unlike robots, have the power to choose how to behave.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Hands folded under my chin, I drifted. A bruise-colored cloud hung over Koko Head. A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand. The sun-warmed shallow water had a strange boiled-vegetable taste. The moment was immense, still, glittering, mundane. I tried to fix each of its parts in memory. I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

He has all the time in the world, he can pick and choose, all the time you have is the moment of his arrival.

There was something mystic about crossroads, they doubled the options, confused both pursuer and pursued.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

We are to choose affliction rather than sin, yea, the greatest affliction before the least sin. Moses

Election indeed is first in order of divine acting, God chooseth before we believe; yet

If we do only what is required of us we are slaves, the moment we do more we are free. – CICERO

As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

Some may still be impatient to die for the emperor, but the chief point in life is to die of something and never for something if it can be helped.

In further institutionalizing the great power of the majority, we are making the individual come to distrust himself. We are giving him a rationalization for the unconscious urging to find an authority that would resolve the burdens of free choice. We are tempting him to reinterpret the group pressures as a release, authority as freedom, and that this quest assumes a moral guise makes it only the more poignant.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

There's still a question I must put to you," said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal. Most people choose the former because they think harms and benefits come from outside themselves.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.