Rene Descartes Quotes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

Freedom is from within.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

Liberty is that principle of spontaneity, or self-determination, which constitutes us as agents, or which gives us a command over our actions, rendering them properly ours, and not effects of the operation of any foreign cause

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters.