“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”
Agatha Christie
“God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.”
Marianne Williamson
“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand
“No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. [John 10:18]”
Bible
“"The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist”
Marcus Aurelius
“Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.”
Scott Adams