Action Quote by Allen W. Wood

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

— Anonymous

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One can't be free without action.

— Christopher Moore

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

— Anonymous

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

— John Twelve Hawks

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

— Orson Scott Card

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

— Edward Snowden

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

— Albert Einstein

“We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.…

— Timothy Snyder

“We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.”

— Timothy Snyder

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

— Karl Barth

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

— William Faulkner