Quotes About Choice

A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.

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Publicity has another important social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those who make and use publicity in no way lessens its significance. Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choice. Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society. And it also masks what is happening in the rest of the world.

Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choice. Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society. And it also masks what is happening in the rest of the world.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a line, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You can't draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both.

It's a hard point connection. USB-C or Lightning?" Harry took out his phone and handed it to her. "USB-C." The

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

If I offered to give you $20 today or $100 in a year, which would you choose?

In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.

A patient can have as many diagnoses as [she] damn well pleases.

Choice is simply a fanciful shorthand for biological processes we do not yet apprehend.

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.

No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the initial desire which is innate and incontrovertible.

This might be a good time to express a little thought: If you really don't want to marry someone, that's probably a good sign that you shouldn't. (You might want to jot that one down somewhere.)

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

I believe that the Total Stock Market Index Fund should be the investment of choice for most investors, covering as it does the entire U.S. stock market, and

For when it starts feeling like a prison in there—and it usually does for most people—you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.