Riyad Mahrez Quotes

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

You'll be free or die!

Education is freedom.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

I'm for economic independence.

Empire and liberty.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I'm not limited.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.