Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

In England, your life is your life.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)