Aleister Crowley Quotes

Self Control, Not State Control

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self regulation is a myth.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

Personal responsibility matters.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!