Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.

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

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

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

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

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

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

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

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

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.'

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

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.