will Quotes

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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“A true man does what he will, not what he must.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“At the other extremity of the circle, unanimity recurs; this is the case when the citizens, having fallen into servitude, have lost both liberty and will.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Where will wants not, a way opens”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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“The world is independent of my will.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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