Quotes About Choice

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!" ? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law." ? Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, bOOK.If I Am Assassinated

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

As can be seen, 'crisis', in its proper sense, expresses something positive, creative and optimistic, because it involves a change, and may be a rebirth after a break-up. It indicates separation, certainly, but also choice, decisions and therefore the opportunity to express an opinion.

Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.

pessoas falem cada vez mais (...) em conexões, ou "conectar-se" e "ser conectado". Em vez de parceiros, preferem falar em "redes". (...) uma "rede" serve de matriz tanto para conectar quanto para desconectar; (...) Nela as conexões são estabelecidas e cortadas por escolha.

Desconocemos las consecuencias de nuestros actos y de nuestras omisiones, pero somos responsables de ellas.

Consumer freedom means orientation of life towards market-approved commodies and therefore precludes one crucial freedom: freedom from the market, freedom that means anything else but the choice between standard commercial products. Above all, consumer freedom successfully deflects aspirations of human liberty from communal affairs and the management of collective life.

Los símbolos de decisiones identitarias grabados en el propio cuerpo sugieren, por el contrario, que la identidad que estos implican es, para el sujeto portador, un compromiso más serio y duradero, y no solo un capricho momentáneo. El tatuaje, milagro entre milagros, señala al mismo tiempo la estabilidad (tal vez incluso la irreversibilidad) intencional del compromiso y la libertad de elección que caracteriza la idea de derecho a la autodefinición y a su ejercicio.

The task confronting free individuals was to use their new freedom to find the appropriate niche and to settle there through conformity: by faithfully following the rules and modes of conduct identified as right and proper for the location.

Cuando las autoridades son muchas, tienden a cancelarse entre sí, y la única autoridad efectiva es la de quien debe elegir entre ellas (...) las autoridades ya no mandan, sino que intentan congraciarse con los electores por medio de la tentación y la seducción.

I]n consumer culture choosing and freedom are two names of the same condition; and treating them as synonymous is correct at least in the sense that you can abstain from choosing only by at the same time surrendering your freedom.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

All that blood and...stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day