Orson Scott Card Quotes

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

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

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

We always have a choice.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

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

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

You always have choices no matter what.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

Choice is our point of power.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

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

Every day brings new choices.

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

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

There are always choices in politics.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.