Quotes About Choice

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.