Thomas Frank Quotes

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.