Quotes About Choice

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

It is not self defining but by You

Intr-o faimoasa previziune, A. Huxley a ironizat spiritele prefabricate: de la nasterea sa, copilul este conditionat prin difuzoare care ating subconstientul sau, apoi de scoala si societate care il orienteaza infailibil spre sertarul care ii este destinat. El a propovaduit educatia contra propagandei: formarea spiritelor inzestrate cu putere de alegere, a oamenilor constienti si responsabili.

drown or blow up.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

I had a choice: to quail, or to harden. I hardened.

How could you ever have loved a man so cruel?' Trusia lifted her chin at that, and regarded me intensely; her voice held a trace of indignance, and I understood that the depth of her love for my father transcended all else. 'You speak as though I had a choice,' she said.

That's the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you'll never know what was behind the door you didn't open.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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

I am condemned to be free.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

The smaller ones should always be preferred to the larger; i.e., rather than having the bass ascend or descend a sixth, we should have it descend or ascend a third, since ascending a third is the same as descending a sixth, just as ascending a sixth and descending a third, ascending a fifth and descending a fourth, or ascending a fourth and descending a