“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
“Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.”
Campaigning for Austerity (2005-02-03)
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English writer and political activist 1963Related quotes
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Source: The Wild Palms
“Welt muss mehr denn je diese Botschaft hören,” Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung, Giessen, Germany, April 12, 2005.
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Wenn Du durchaus nur die Wahl hast, zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grobheit, dann wähle die Grobheit. Wenn jedoch die Wahl getroffen werden muß zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grausamkeit, dann wähle die Unwahrheit.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 39.
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
Labor Day Message to the nation http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3557 (3 September 1972)
1970s
Press release, 2003-02-27 http://myclob.pbwiki.com/02-27-2003
2003–2007 Governor of Massachusetts
“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”