David Icke Quotes

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

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.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.