Quotes About Self-governance

We are not communists.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

Wem die Fähigkeit abhandengekommen ist, selbstbestimmt zu handeln, ist aber nicht meinesgleichen.

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.

After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

For we put the power in the people.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

I am an adult person who is not answerable to children.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing.

Democratic individualism does not officially provide much of a place for leaders in a regime where everyone is supposed to be his own master. Charisma both justifies leaders and excuses followers.

That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

Nobody controls me but me.