Quotes About Self-governance

Being single entitles you to not ask someone's opinion before you do something to mess up your own room, your credit report or even your life.

nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill.

We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

I don't run behind authority.

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

Ukrainians are entitled to decide their own future.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

The machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice—which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to be a human concept rather than a western one.

Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.

When colonists came to grips with their destiny, it was because they had realized liberty and responsibility go together.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

You are the Master of your own Destiny