Quotes about Self-determination

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alÃ

As Henry Ford II said, "Never complain, never explain." No one makes you do anything or feel anything. You are where you are and what you are because you have decided to be there. Everything that you are or ever will be is entirely up to you. If there is any effect in your life that you're not happy about, it is solely up to you to change the causes. You are completely responsible.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.