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Quotes About Choice

Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.
~ Osamu Dazai
Submission or escape; to keep up the fair-and-square fight or compromise with lies; deception or placation; to be or not to be––which one is better? I don't know. I don't know, so it causes me suffering.
~ Osamu Dazai
There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.
~ Osamu Dazai
Ama içlerinden birine ufac?k da olsa gülümsersem, sadece bu bile adamlardan birinin beni kendine e? olarak seçmesi ve benim zorla evlendirilmem anlam?na gelebilir. Bir kad?n?n kaderine karar vermek için bir gülümseme yetip de art?yor.
~ Osamu Dazai
It may require courage to say what they said, but were they really able to take responsibility for the consequences?
~ Osamu Dazai
Mientras que las personas tienen el derecho de vivir con libertad, tienen también el derecho de morir en el momento que lo deseen; pero, cuando la madre está viva, hay que renunciar a este derecho porque, al ejercerlo, al mismo tiempo que quitarse la propia vida se llevarían la de la madre.
~ Osamu Dazai
A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that's the case, let me explain that the person's vote does make a difference.
~ Unknown
A vote isn't just a piece of paper: it's a person's way of weighing in on who should be running the country, so not voting is the same as throwing away their say in the matter.
~ Unknown
Base your voting process off your research.
~ Unknown
The idea of individual freedom and the ability to make choices without external constraints has been the cornerstone of many democratic societies. However, the concept of liberty is not without its challenges, and it is essential to strike a balance between individual liberty and societal norms.
~ Unknown
The life you're capable of living is waiting for you—all you have to do is choose to go after it.
~ Unknown
The person's vote does make a difference.
~ Unknown
To think is God's gift to man. What to think is in your hands.
~ Unknown
We all have the power to make little choices that can change the course of our lives forever.
~ Unknown
You are in control of how you set the tone of your day.
~ Unknown
You can either choose to wait around and hope life gives you what you want—or you can choose to jump up and put in the work to make your dream come true.
~ Unknown
I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
~ Oscar Nunez
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!
~ Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
~ Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
~ Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
~ Oscar Wilde
my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. one or the other has to go.
~ Oscar Wilde
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.
~ Oskar Schindler