Lauren Oliver Quotes

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Individual liberty is individual power.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

We are freer than we think.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.