Autonomous Action Quotes

Revolutions are not made for export

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

I never know what South Carolina thinks. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate.

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

The essence of an individual’s freedom is the opportunity to deviate from traditional ways of thinking and of doing things.

We need people willing to do things because they are doing what is right, not because some powerful trade association wants it done.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

The truth is I am beholden to no one, nobody's gonna tell me what to do, no - no group that owns a military firm that gives military supplies. Because I know - I've heard the case where often times you wanna buy certain weapons or something and you like one but you get the other one because that one has a contact to our politicians.

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.

But political checks will no more act of themselves, than a bridle will direct a horse without a rider.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

I never learned all the things you're not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense.