Quotes About Agency

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Were born to be players, not pawns.

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.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Man is condemned to be free

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

You do not own me. I do not own you.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains