Quotes About Self-governance

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

It would be nice if nobody ever had to make anybody do anything.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid. The newly won freedom appears as a curse; he is free from the sweet bondage of paradise, but he is not free to govern himself, to realize his individuality.

The newly won freedom appears as a curse; he is free from the sweet bondage of paradise, but he is not free to govern himself, to realize his individuality.

In the stage of full maturity he has freed himself from the person of mother and of father as protecting and commanding powers; he has established the motherly and fatherly principles in himself. He has become his own father and mother; he is father and mother.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

In the realm of thought majorities do not determine. Each brain is a kingdom, each mind is a sovereign.

Sometimes, the best management is no management at all. Jeffrey Pfeffer likes to say that managers should be required to take something like the physician's oath: "First, do no harm.

Why is almost the whole earth governed by monarchs?" Voltaire asked. "The honest answer is because men are rarely worthy of governing themselves.… Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude.… I do not like government by the rabble.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

It was a lesson in self-reliance.