Barbara Hambly Quotes

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

I just pretty much do what I want to do.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.

Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

To be free, men must choose their own callings, bargain for their own services and provide for their families and old age.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

Individual liberty and responsibility involve the right of private judgment; this involves the right to all the light necessary to form a correct judgment.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.