Quotes About Self-rule

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

Meanwhile the subject peoples of the Austrian Empire were starting to think they might rule themselves—which was why the Bosnian nationalist Gavrilo Princip had shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands.

Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.

This is a world-wide struggle between freedom and tyranny," he told a California audience, "between the self-rule of many as opposed to the dictatorship of the ruthless few.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Of course we have the right to have expectations towards Europe - especially towards the Europe that left us to be the prey of the Russians in 1945 - but above all we have the right to rule ourselves here on our own and decide what form Poland should have.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.

I don't want to be anybody's prisoner. I want to be a Queen.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Sit under the sun abdicate and be your own king

No el placer, no la gloria, no el poder: la libertad, únicamente la libertad.

But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do.

We have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;