Quotes About Self-governance

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I don't really want followers, to be honest; that's what Twitter is for. I want people who can make their own decisions and look after their own departments.

you are the authority figure in your life.

He who truly thinks for himself is like a monarch, in that he recognizes no one over him. His judgements, like the decisions of a monarch, arise directly from his own absolute power. He no more accepts authorities than a monarch does orders, and he acknowledges the validity of nothing he has not himself confirmed.

O único modo de desenvolver a superioridade na convivência com os outros é não precisar deles de maneira alguma e fazê-los perceber isso.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

how did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled? By holding on to just one rule. Which? To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind.

It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. that is freedom. This and nothing else. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 101

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

but we do not interfere. If we did, would you truly be free?

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

without having to turn to their central bank.

themselves and their own

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.

In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Tell us Lin. I would like to know." "Well, if you press me, I'd have to say freedom." "The freedom to do what?" he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word. "I don't know. Maybe just the freedom to say no. If you've got that much freedom, you really don't need any more.

No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.