Quotes About Choice

On abortion, the left says it is for choice, but ignores that the baby has no choice.

A woman's right to choose takes precedence over all—even if that means crushing the skull of a living child and sucking its brains into a sink.

We need social institutions to provide us the safety to take risks, institutions that help pick us up when we fall; we also need governmental structures that leave us free to take those risks. We need social organizations promoting civic virtue in order to instill individual virtue; we need government to protect individuals' free right to choose.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

para comer con el demonio hace falta una cuchara muy larga.

He watched her as she held the door for Maggie to pass through with the soup. Her hair was the color of rain-wet wheat. He had chosen her sister, Delia Crawford; Delia the dark one; Delia who died.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both