Jim Butcher Quotes

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

We always have a choice.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

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

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Nobody likes not having freedom.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

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