Quotes About Choice

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.