Quotes About Self-governance

pois nas mulheres, e em particular nas do nosso tipo, por melhor que seja a disposição dos nossos corações, há sempre uma parte rainha que se autogoverna e que tem suas próprias razões de Estado, e dentre estas a mais forte é a que manda jamais se confundir a vontade com o ato.

self respect. self reliance. self control.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

People who can organize themselves and accomplish something as devilishly complicated as a good ballgame are hard to herd around. They can form societies of their own. They become men and women, not human resources. They can be free.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I like being independent, so that when I go home at night nobody says, 'What time's dinner?'

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Actually it is the way in which men always, everywhere, keep the peace, when no one of them has a recognized right to use force. Then each one feels his responsibility. This is the way Americans kept the peace on the frontier, and keep it now on fishing and hunting trips and in clubrooms.

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

Don't ever give anyone, anything, the power, the authority, to control your life unless it's just to do so.

In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.

The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone.

el no dejarme regir, ni aun en las cosas mínimas, por otros principios que por la razón;

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.