Terry Pratchett Quotes

Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

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.

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.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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 do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

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.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.