Quotes About Agency

We all take our own ways. We all make our own choices, for good or ill.

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

The dignity of man is in free choice.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Men make history. History does not make the man.