“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: His mother had often said, "When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action." She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
“You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.65
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
Variant: A people free to choose will always choose peace