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Free-Will  Quotes
I’ve been coerced into free will.

—Brian Spellman

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DeterminismFateFree-Will
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Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

—Ashim Shanker

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AuthorityDutyFree-Will
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You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

—J.R. Rim

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It may be bad for you, but government has no role in dictating our lives. People should be free to imprison themselves.

—Jarod Kintz

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ChoiceFree-WillFreedom
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Fate isn’t a straight road,” I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. “There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have...

—Dean Koontz

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Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he...

—Leo Tolstoy

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Free-WillFreedom
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This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that...

—Loraine Boettner

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Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are…condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one – that is the meaning of order. If we start being...

—Tom Stoppard

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Free-WillOrderSpontaneity
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The very idea of penalizing based on propensities is nauseating. To accuse a person of some possible future behavior is to negate the very foundation of justice: that one must have done something before we...

—Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

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Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the...

—Tony Vigorito

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We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

—Anthony Burgess

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Free-WillGovernmentOppression
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When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then...

—Alan McCluskey

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Free-WillHumanity-And-SocietyViolence
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where...

—H. Rider

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Every man has within him only one life and one nature … It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You...

—Ellis Peters

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The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice…

—Henry Lindell

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Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly...

—James Joyce

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This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

—Neal Stephenson

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…our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse…To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

—Radhanath Swami

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Yet our ability to exercise free will and transcend the most extraordinary obstacles does not make the conditions of our life irrelevant. Most of us struggle and often fail to meet the biggest challenges of...

—Michelle Alexander

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There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his...

—T.H. White

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The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible...

—C.S. Lewis

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There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.”(Against Fortunatus)

—Augustine of Hippo

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She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone’s strings all the time, we’d be puppets.

—Janice Cantore

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Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.

—Friedrich Hayek

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer...

—Goparaju Ramachandra

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willed freely” are events that simply do not exist.

—Mark J.

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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Free-WillHistory
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Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of...

—Sam Harris

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The Creator puts life into motion, and doesn’t just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that on his whims. If life was just one gigantic board game, God isn’t...

—Sean Patrick

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Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant. He is born without his...

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As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

—Bryant McGill

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… how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an...

—Chuck Palahniuk

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Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire...

—Clarence Darrow

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There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people’s free will when they decided to do the Devil’s work.

—Dean Koontz

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FateFree-Will
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

—Madeleine Albright

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Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness… imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

—Neil Peart

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The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

—Raheel Farooq

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The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the ‘co-dependent’ authority of the other”.R. Alan Woods [2012]

—R. Alan

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Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us.Free will is our infinite ability to...

—Vera Nazarian

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ChoiceChoicesDestiny
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ou nous ne sommes pas libres et Dieu tout-puissant est responsable du mal. Ou nous sommes libres et responsables mais Dieu n’est pas tout-puissant. Toutes les subtilités d’écoles n’ont rien ajouté ni soustrait au tranchant...

—Albert Camus

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You are free. The world is yours. got take it.

—Brom

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Free-WillFreedom
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

—Georg C.

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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with...

—Ellis Peters

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Free-WillJudgmentPenance
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There’d be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious...

—Frank Herbert

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DuneFree-WillGod
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I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house...

—John Green

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And so from then onwards, Daniel understood that the point of this grueling sundial project was not merely to plot the curve but to understand why each curve was shaped as it was. To put...

—Neal Stephenson

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Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God’s ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

—Rob Bell

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Free-WillHeavenHell
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I also had to come tonight to apologize. If you need to go to Mexico to finish this process off, then I understand. I was wrong to criticize you for it or even imply that...

—Richelle Mead

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AgencyEqualsFree-Will
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