Rudolph Rocker Quotes

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

I'm an independent girl. I come from a family where we were given freedom.

I have lived life on my own terms.

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

Individual liberty is individual power.