Freedom Of Choice Quotes - Page 2

• The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

  George Carlin

  School, Ideas, Giving

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• Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, Giving, Choices

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

  Thomas Merton

  Freedom, Choices, Tasks

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.

  Barack Obama

  Choices, President, Firsts

  "Obama's Laundry List of Broken Promises". "Hannity" with Rich Lowry, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2010.

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• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

  Andre Gide

  Freedom, Liberty, Know How

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

  Jonah Hill

  Strong, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Jonah Hill Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 2, 2010.

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• But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Eden, Giving

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• [Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

  David O. McKay

  Choices, Peaceful, Liberty

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• Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Depressing, Two

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.

  George Carlin

  Education, Country, Real

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

  William Matthews

  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Believe, Past

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, Careers, America

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Want

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

  Carl Rogers

  Choices, Groups, Individual

  "Carl Rogers on Personal Power" by Carl Rogers, (p. 113), 1977.

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• If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mean, People, Choices

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• When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

  Randal Marlin

  Giving, Choices, Information

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

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• Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Powerful, Choices

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• There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.

  George Gilder

  Opportunity, Order, Choices

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.84, Regnery Publishing

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• I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  Believe, People, Choices

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