India Arie Quotes

Professional sports are something they can't control.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

I like control.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

My definition of success is control.

I would not like a king who could obey.

The American people believe that we ought to control our government. On the other hand, we've seen government more and more controlling us

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

I have no power, no independence.

Now the power is in your hands!

Sovereignty means that you’ve been given sovereignty

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

I loved being governor. It’s like running your own little country.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority.

There is no fettering of authority.

We have the power to turn against our creators.