Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

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.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

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

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

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

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

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.

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.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

People have to do what they want to do.

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

I have always done what I wanted to do.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

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.

We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.

Now the power is in your hands!

I will never inflict my values on you.

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

The old theory was, that the least possible should be left to the choice of the individual agent; that all he had to do should, as far as practicable, be laid down for him by superior wisdom. Left to himself he was sure to go wrong.

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