Free Will Quotes

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

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

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

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.