Agency Quotes

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a...

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change t...

What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and s...

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than ...

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to ...

Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the...

I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free wil...

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to ...

I don't want to be told that it's the people with power over us who are guilty, that we're innocent ...

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact ...

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity,...

...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of g...

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from ...

After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his d...

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conceptio...