Freedom Of Choice Quotes

You'll let me choose? Whenever you say that, I never actually have another choice.

My heart is like an open highway.

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Bon Jovi

It's My Life

Heart

So many choices when you are single.

— Paris for me... was more than living on the streets... and trying to put it on the paper, do you know what I mean?
— My dream has always been to just run away and become an artist... living in a garret, poor but free.
— You wouldn't last two days. There's no hot water and hardly ever any caviar.
— I happen to hate caviar. And I hate people telling me what dreams I should and shouldn't have. I'm sorry. You're right. Well, all right. Everybody expects me to be this delicate little flower, which I'm not. I'm sturdy. I'm strong as a horse. I'm here to do something, not just sit around and be decorative.

Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just shoot us?

Your freedom to choose is more important than anything.

99 percent of subjects accepted the program, as long as theq were given a choice even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level.

Today I take the test. I'm scared it'll tell me I'm not Abnegation. That i have to leave my family. But I'm even more scared that it will tell me to stay.

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Divergent

Tris (Beatrice) Pryor

Life

Responsibility

— What was my result?
— Abnegation. And Erudiete. And Dauntless. Your results were inconclusive.
— That's impossible. It doesn't make any sense.
— No. Not impossible. It's just extremely rare. They call it "Divergent".
— So what am I supposed to do at the choosing ceremony? I was supposed to learn what to do. This was supposed to tell me what faction to choose, the test. We're supposed to trust the test!
— The test didn't work on you. You have to trust yourself.

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Divergent

Tris (Beatrice) Pryor

Tory

Responsibility

Inevitability, Fate

— Can I ask you something?
— What?
— What happens when he's dead?
— When Bucho's dead... it's over. He's the last one.
— End of payback. Eye for an eye. You finally going to be satisfied?
— I think so.
— I hope so.

You know, a puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. You're not controlling the storm. You're not lost in it, either. You are the storm. Question, what's it all for?

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American Satan

Archangel Gabriel (homeless man)

These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn — they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete! These same people who profess their love of the unborn's soul — they don't care to make much of a contribution to the poor, they don't care to offer much assistance to the unwanted or the oppressed! How do they justify such a concern for the fetus and such a lack of concern for unwanted and abused children? They condemn others for the accident of conception; they condemn the poor — as if the poor can help being poor. One way the poor could help themselves would be to be in control of the size of their families. I thought that freedom of choice was obviously democratic — was obviously American!

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John Irving

The Cider House Rules

Dr. Wilbur Larch

Abortion

Children

We are free when we can choose our own path.

We are free when we understand ourselves, we understand ourselves.

— Look, we... we don't need politicians, we've all got iPhones and computers, right? So any decision that has to be made, any policy, we just put it online. Let the people vote thumbs up, thumbs down, the majority wins. That's a democracy. That's a... that's an actual democracy.

— So's YouTube, and I don't know if you've seen it, but the most popular video is a dog farting the theme tune to Happy Days.