Quotes Tagged With :agency

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal....

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

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

No one attribute so clearly distinguishes man as does the intelligent will or the will to act intelligently.....

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters....

God says when. I execute.

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest....

If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create....

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.....

But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437