Voluntary Choice Quotes

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

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.

The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution -- an idea most pagans would have rejected as absurd -- persists today as the ethical basis of western law and politics. Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society -- a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation but by the voluntary choice of its members.

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.