Mark Knopfler Quotes

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

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

I have the freedom to choose the roles I want.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

I want to go out on my terms.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I only have control over what I do.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.