Free Will Quotes

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

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

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up to you to decide, and God is a God of free will.

If you believe in free will, why don't you have confidence in people to use it? Why do you want a government, or whoever, regulating them, if you believe in it?

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!

A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

I owe my life to God who set me free from all my sins.

Imprisoned peace sets the war free

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

How wrong we are to ignore our hearts to follow the familiar path.

You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave.

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.

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

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.