Myles Munroe Quotes

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

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.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

British people do not like being bossed around.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

To change masters is not to be free.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.