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As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. (Paulo Coelho)
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. View quote
Theodor Adorno
When the people choose bread between bread and freedom, they eventually lose everything, including bread. If the people choose freedom, they will have bread grown by themselves and not taken away by anyone. View quote
Stepan Bandera
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. View quote
Simone Weil
Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. View quote
Adnan Oktar
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. View quote
Edmund Burke
But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. View quote
Jean Anouilh
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. (George Bernard Shaw)
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. View quote
Ralph Nader
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. View quote
Emil Cioran
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. View quote
Robert Nozick
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. View quote
Roger Ebert
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. View quote
Alice Walker
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. (Morarji Desai)
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. View quote
Richard Bach
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