Seneca the Younger Quotes

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

To advise is not to compel.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

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

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.