Warren Farrell Quotes

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

I can do whatever I want.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

He is great enough that is his own master.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.