Choice Quote by Thomas Merton

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

— Tara Brach

“Freedom in society is gauged by our success in getting what we want and conditioned by status and power, by race, class and gender.…

— Gabor Maté

Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the…

— Rajneesh

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory…

— Geoffrey Wood

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears…

— Caroline Knapp

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and…

— David Foster Wallace

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

— Hugh Mackay

Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities.

— Herbert Marcuse

“If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else…

— Geoffrey Wood