List Of 7+ Individual Choice Quotes

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.

Morality Is Not Defined And Cannot Be Defined By Individual Choice.

Thus, And Not Otherwise, The World Was Made. Either Something Or Nothing Must Depend On Individual Choices.

In An Essay 10 Years Ago, I Pointed Out That It Is Utterly Logical For Polygamy Rights To Follow Gay Rights. After All, If Traditional Marriage Is Defined As The Union Of (1) Two People Of (2) Opposite Gender, And If, As Advocates Of Gay Marriage Insist, The Gender Requirement Is Nothing But Prejudice, Exclusion And An Arbitrary Denial Of One's Autonomous Choices In Love, Then The First Requirement - The Number Restriction (two And Only Two) - Is A Similarly Arbitrary, Discriminatory And Indefensible Denial Of Individual Choice.

Once You Accept The Fact That People Have 'individual Choices' And They're 'free' To Make Those Choices. Free To Make Choices Means Without Being Influenced And I Can't Understand That At All. All Of Us Are Influenced In All Our Choices By The Culture We Live In, By Our Parents, And By The Values That Dominate. So, We're Influenced. So There Can't Be Free Choices.

Freedom Of Religion, As The Founding Fathers Saw It, Was Not Just The Right To Associate Oneself With A Certain Denomination But The Right To Disassociate Without Penalty. Belief Or Nonbelief Was A Matter Of Individual Choice - A Right Underwritten In The Basic Charter Of The Nation's Liberties.

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.