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“Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Freewill does not impune the sovereignty of God, it in fact affirms it.”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“She loved him, and she was going to do everything she could to get him back. She hadn’t come this far just to walk away. He was the love of her life, dammit. The man she wanted to marry. The world had reversed its orbit to bring them back together, for Pete’s sake, and she wasn’t going down without a fight. Fate could only do so much; the rest was up to her.”
― Andrea Lochen, The Repeat Year

“Have you ever stopped to consider the number of choices you make daily Paradoxically speaking, every time you have a choice to make and you don't make it, by default, you are making a choice not to make a choice, which is, of course, a choice. You have no choice in the matter. This is an important question because the more conscious you are about your choices, the more likely it is you will end up where you want to be at the end of your stay on this planet.”
― Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It

“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet”
― Neil Peart

“Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it is man’s attempt to expunge all and every act of randomness from daily life. The ultimate goal of civilization is determinism, the complete absence of freewill. If everyone adhered to every rule, every demand, every decree of civilization, there would be no accidents, no arguments, no crime! Man would move through his life smoothly, like a well-oiled cog in a grandfather clock.”
― Peter Jelen

“Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill”
― Debalina Haldar, The Female Ward

“What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?”
― Leo Tolstoy

“How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.”
― The Cure

“We are slaves
to the dictates of free will.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Freewill is fractal.”
― R.A.Delmonico

“I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery.”
― A.E. Samaan

“No his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is”
― Neil Peart

“Now there is discoverable in man, Freewill. His actions are of moral value to him if they are undertaken upon his own initiative; not if they are undertaken under compulsion. Therefore the use of choice is necessary to human dignity. A man deprived of choice is
by that the less a man, and this we all show through the repugnance excited in us by unauthorized restraint and subjection, through coercion rather than authority, to another’s will. We cannot do good, or even evil, unless we do it freely; and if we admit the idea of good at all in human society, freedom must be its accompaniment.”
― Hilaire Belloc, An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“There is no space where God is not. Yet, I can eliminate Him from the space which is me. And if He has granted me that kind of power, I should probably be far too scared to ever use it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill”
― Michael J Cooper

“We do not have to believe something is right- to believe a person has a right to choose it. God doesn't force us to serve him. It is a freewill choice we make, so why in the name of all that is holy and right do we think we can force other people to live by our particular brand of religion? We are commanded to Love if we are Christ servers.”
― Linda Wells~Harr

“There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance

A planet of play things
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
'The stars aren't aligned
Or the gods are malign...'
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill

There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotus Land

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet”
― Rush

“no wonder, then, if the entrenched, secretly smouldering emotions of revenge and hatred put this belief to their own use and, in fact, do not defend any belief more passionately than that the strong are free to be weak, and the birds of prey are free to be lambs: â€� in this way, they gain the right to make the birds of prey responsible for being birds of prey . . . When the oppressed, the downtrodden, the violated say to each other with the vindictive cunning of powerlessness: ‘Let us be different from evil people, let us be good! And a good person is anyone who does not rape, does not harm anyone, who does not attack, does not retaliate, who leaves the taking of
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revenge to God, who keeps hidden as we do, avoids all evil and asks little from life in general, like us who are patient, humble and uprightâ€� â€� this means, if heard coolly and impartially, nothing more than: ‘We weak people are just weak; it is good to do nothing for which we are not strong enoughâ€� â€� but this grim state of affairs, this cleverness of the lowest rank which even insects possess (which play dead, in order not to ‘do too muchâ€� when in great danger), has, thanks to the counterfeiting and self- deception of powerlessness, clothed itself in the finery of self-denying, quiet, patient virtue, as though the weakness of the weak were itself â€� I mean its essence, its effect, its whole unique, unavoidable, irredeemable reality â€� a voluntary achievement, something wanted, chosen, a deed, an accomplishment. This type of man needs to believe in an unbiased ‘subjectâ€� with freedom of choice, because he has an instinct of self-preservation and self-affirmation in which every lie is sanctified. The reason the subject (or, as we more colloquially say, the soul) has been, until now, the best doctrine on earth, is perhaps because it facilitated that sublime self- deception whereby the majority of the dying, the weak and the oppressed of every kind could construe weakness itself as freedom, and their par- ticular mode of existence as an accomplishment.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich

“Might it not be the case that that extremely foolhardy and fateful philosophical invention, first devised for Europe, of the ‘free willâ€�, of man’s absolute freedom [Spontaneität] to do good or evil, was chiefly thought up to justify the idea that the interest of the gods in man, in man’s virtue, could never be exhausted?”
― nietszche

“To make the gift truly a gift, God had to hand us Christmas packaged with the right to reject it, for part of the gift is the right to refuse the gift. Yet, the best gift that we can give ourselves is to refuse that right.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough