Individual Choice quotes

Individual Choice

15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

15 quotes

Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

"Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights."

#Rights #Agreement #Individual Choice Read quote

Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

"The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss."

#Real #Character #Individual Choice Read quote

C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

"Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices."

#Individual Choice #Choices #World Read quote

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside individual choice — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Individual Choice

Topics related to Individual Choice