Terry Pratchett Quotes

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

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

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.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

People are decisions and actions.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

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.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Make your choice and accept the consequences.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.