Graham Greene Quotes on Choice

5 quotes

  1. In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

  2. We do not choose our concerns.

  3. Sooner or later...one has to take sides - if one is to remain human.

  4. However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance-so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  5. If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the United States of America, I would certainly choose the Soviet Union, if I had to choose between life in North Korea and life in South Korea, I would certainly choose North Korea.

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