Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

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

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

I would choose freedom over comfort every time.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Freedom always comes with a price.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.