Quotes About Agency

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

A man is the origin of his action.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Third, on November 3, 2018, it was reported that the UN Refugee Agency commanded President Trump to let the caravan of immigrants approaching the US-Mexico border into America. A UN agency can't force the president of the United States to comply with its orders, but notice that it tried.

No man can be trapped without his consent.

If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts in his own impulses and desires.

Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3