2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”
"A Prospect of Europe", 1997 speech at the University of New South Wales.
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
2014, Statement on Cuban policy (December 2014)
On the absence of people of color in her school curriculums in “‘My Writing is My Activism’: An Interview with Isabel Quintero” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-writing-is-my-activism-an-interview-with-isabel-quintero/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2017 Feb 1)
“We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people's agendas to control our lives.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Context: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
