Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom but license.

Do not deliver yourself up as a slave to any man.

A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Discipline must come through liberty.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.