Free Choice Quotes
53 quotes by 42 authors
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
— Thomas Aquinas
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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
— John Stuart Mill
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
— Emanuel Lasker
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In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value…
— James Madison
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The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength…
— Carl Jung
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Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities.
— Herbert Marcuse
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The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
— Herbert Marcuse
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify…
— Herbert Marcuse
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We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence —…
— John F. Kennedy
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Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are…
— Ken Schoolland
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We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the…
— Martin Luther
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I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left…
— Martin Luther
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I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.
— Jose Mujica
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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use,…
— Camille Paglia
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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou…
— Bayazid Bastami
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Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
— Maria Montessori
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