Quotes About Self-governance

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

What I do in my own time, is my business.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Your morals are your own affair, mum. As are my own.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

if men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

The best agent for me is myself.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.

It would be nice if you could rely on others, but whatever your always better off being independent.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Opinions matter little to those who have a mind of their own.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.