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Quotes About Choice

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.
~ Janette Oke
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
~ Mike Norton
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
~ Marc Riboud
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Freedom is the recognition of contingency.
~ Richard Rorty
Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.
~ Scott Adams
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
~ Golda Meir
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
~ T. S. Eliot
Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.
~ Michael Rosen
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
~ Voltaire
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
~ Gerry Spence
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
~ Franz Kafka
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
~ Douglas Horton
I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.
~ Unknown
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
~ H. G. Wells
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
~ Voltaire
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
~ Albert Camus
I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
~ Matt Ridley
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
~ William Barclay
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
~ Nhat Hanh