Mordechai Vanunu Quotes

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

I am a rank individualist.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

Freedom remains still the wisest cure for freedom's temporary inconveniences.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please