Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

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.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I like to be in control of my own destiny.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.