Quotes about Self-determination
Quotes. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison
I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.
- Holly Hunter
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We all exercise agency in the choices we make.
- Gordon Hinckley
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
- Alice Walker
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
- John F. Kennedy
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
- Ayn Rand
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
- CS Lewis
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
- Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is man, and master of his fate.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson