Mari Evans Quotes

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

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.

Freedom is control in your own life.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

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.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking—this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

The individual is greater than the state.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.