A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891
Robbie Keane’s not the second choice, he’s my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well. Martin Jol
Gary always weighed up his options. Especially when he had no choice. Kevin Keegan
He thrust a terrible choice upon us. And we made it. Games of Thrones s6e1: The Red Woman, HBO 2016
To govern is to choose. Duc de Levis, Maximes et Reflexions, 1812
‘It’s all about choices. And the choices I made.’ Erin Caffey, cited Killer Women with Piers Morgan
You get more choice than an Irish barber’s. Red Dwarf s11e3: Give and Take, Rimmer, BBC 2016
You have two choices: you can take them and suffer the terrible consequences or you can say no and be like me. Spitting Image s3e12, Nancy Reagan, ITV 1986
I had to pick a side, George. It was an aesthetic choice as much as a moral one. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ***** 2011 starring Gary Oldman & Colin Firth & Tom Hardy & Mark Strong & Ciaran Hinds & Benedict Cumberbatch & David Dencik & Stephen Graham & Simon McBurney & Toby Jones & John Hurt & Kathy Burke et al, director Tomas Alfredson, Firth
You can save a witness or your family. The Commuter 2018 starring Liam Neeson & Vera Farmiga & Patrick Wilson & Jonathan Banks & Sam Neill & Elizabeth McGovern & Killian Scott & Shazad Latif & Andy Nyman & Clara Lago et al, director Jaume Collet-Serra, bad lady
Capitalists should never be allowed near a healthcare system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a new or used car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. Chris Hedges
The last thing I wanted in my life was a war. But now you’re bringing it to me. I’ll win this war, Stefano. After you father died I went into hiding … I don’t want to do to you what I once did to your father. You have to choose, Stefano. Choose which side you are on. You won’t get another chance. ZeroZeroZero III: Miranda, Sky Atlantic 2021
I’ve got a choice in life, now: I either go back to the booze and the gambling and the drugs or I go the other way. Paul Merson, press conference, cited Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League II, BBC 2021
No matter how low you sink there’s still a right and a wrong. You always end up choosing ... You’re dead and you don’t know it. Last Man Standing 1996 starring Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken & Alexandra Powers & Bruce Dern & William Sanderson & David Patrick Kelly & Karina Lombard & Ned Eisenberg & R D Call & Ken Jenkins & Ted Markland et al, director Walter Hill
I chose conscience. Anthony Blunt, British spy, Cambridge 5
‘And the government cracks down on this one segment, and they do so with brute force, sending in the stormtroopers essentially, and shutting down the milk plant in its entirety, and confiscating all the milk, regardless of whether or not it’s contaminated.’ Freedom from Choice, Youtube 1.18.14 2014
The California milk raids were not an isolated event. Over the past few years there have been raids all across the US to crack down on the sale of many organic products. ibid.
‘The problem with the US political system is that it revolves around money.’ ibid. Sheila Krumholz
‘People think we live in a free market society. And we don’t. Big government and big business are way too closely aligned today especially in the United States. And this you know is because of lobbying basically. We have cronyism, we don’t have capitalism.’ ibid. Mike Maloney
‘The revolving door is merely proof of the fact that when you give government and its agencies the power to regulate commerce it always, always, leads to corruption.’ ibid. G Edward Griffin
‘This isn’t a representative form of government. They only represent the most powerful and the people that give them the most amount of money.’ ibid. Gerald Celente
George Toca claims to be a victim of a miscarriage of justice. Emily Maw and Kristin Wenstrom work at IPNO, Innocence Project New Orleans. The Innocence Network, 2023
23rd April 1984: ‘My brother would never kill Eric; they was brothers.’ ibid.
A few hours after the murder the investigation began and very quickly police turned to George, making him the sole suspect. ibid.
‘The intended victims of the armed robbery picked George’s photograph out of a photo array, and that was all the evidence against him.’ ibid. IPNO
At the police station both the man and woman independently gave a precise and similar description of the person who fired the shot: a description that did not fit Chicken George at all. ibid.
When he sent his letter in 2001 he had already spent 17 years in prison. ibid.
On January 25th 2015 the State Attorney General approached Emily with a radical plea for George … If he agreed to sign a confession for the murder of his best friend, he would be released immediately. When presented with the plea, Goerge had already been in prison for 30 years. ibid.
George accepted the deal. ibid.