Quotes About Choice

With the individual wielding unprecedented power to decide her own path in life, we find it ever harder to make commitments.

Around AD 1500, history made its most momentous choice, changing not only the fate of humankind, but arguably the fate of all life on earth. We call it the Scientific Revolution. It began in western Europe, a large peninsula on the western tip of Afro-Asia, which up till then played no important role in history.

el hecho de que algo pueda hacerse no significa que tenga que hacerse.

Technology is never deterministic, and the fact that something can be done does not mean it must be done.

Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real question facing us is not 'what do we want to be come?' but 'what do we want to want?

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted. Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes? Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Exploitation is capitalism's most effective naturalized violence, a systemic violence experienced by most of the world, and yet rarely recognized as a form of violence, or a form of violence that you can do something about: We know that capitalism is bad, ruthless even, but we don't believe anything else is better. Capitalism or the Gulag? We choose the former each time.

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

Human is what he decides to be."

What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual."

Every aspect of sex is not for everybody. People like different things.

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don't even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind's creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them. - Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Happiness is not something you found, but rather something you create.

All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us—or beat us.

Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.

From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.

I know what I want, because I know what I don't want.

Happiness is not what we have but what we do with it.