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Quotes About Choice

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
~ Diana DeGette
The only true law is that which leads to freedom.
~ Richard Bach
Freedom, security, convenience - choose two
~ Dan Geer
God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.
~ Unknown
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
~ Benjamin Spock
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
~ D. A. Carson
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
~ Martin Luther
I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.
~ Pamela Geller
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
~ Edward Gibbon
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Freedom is self-determination.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
~ James Baldwin
A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.
~ Betty Ford
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.
~ Karl Jaspers
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
~ Frank Chodorov
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
~ Helen Keller
The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.
~ Paul Robeson
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
~ Gerry Spence
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
~ Viktor E. Frankl