Quotes About Choice

There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

Good and bad is tricky, she said. I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch and know things.

Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too. You just had to decide who your friends really were.

But at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction.

On a million hillsides the girl ran, on a million bridges the girl chose, on a million paths the woman stood... All different, all one. All she could do for all of them was be herself, here and now, as hard as she could.

I must admit, you're not the chosen one I would have chosen.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?

Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.

Rincewind's feet made their own decision and, from the point of view of his head, got it entirely wrong.

And there are those who would rather be behind evil than in front of it

The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live.