“Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My dream, my right - my failure, my fuel - my life, my ethics - my body, my choice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“You aren't doing it for the sake of ideals, are you? Not for the sake of...liberty. Freedom, self determination, all that.' He… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Programmed behavior cannot produce the level of spiritual development required to qualify one for eternal life. A necessary range of freedom and… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
“We alone control our final form through our conscious actions. We become the product of the movement of our mind and our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“I’d like them to appreciate the power of the individual—and I don’t mean me; I mean the power each person has to… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In the learning process, a learner does encounter some difficulty. But with diligent, you will master the act.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.” — Anita Stansfield Copy Share Image
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.” — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
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