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Quotes About Choice

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
~ Edwin Arnold
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
~ Judy Blume
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
~ Eric Hoffer
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
~ Thornton Wilder
If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
~ Robert Frost
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
~ Albert Pike
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
~ Tony Blair
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
~ John Zerzan
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
~ Philip Yancey
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
~ Karl Popper
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
~ Rakim
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
~ Masha Gessen
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.
~ Ayn Rand
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
~ David Guterson
Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.
~ Smokey Robinson
Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.
~ Peter Molyneux
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.
~ Helen Mirren
No one who lives in error is free.
~ Euripides
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."
~ Ralph Barton Perry