Restricted Choice Quotes

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

I order you to hold a free election but forbid you to elect any but Richard [d'Ilchester.]

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.