Individual Autonomy Quotes

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

We are no longer facing a contest betweenDemocracy and Communism. The conflict today is between Democracy and authoritarianism.

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.