Agency Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life,…

— Albert J. Nock

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and…

— Evgeny Morozov

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

— Charles Lindbergh

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.

— Cal Cunningham

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

— James L. Farmer, Jr

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Jerome Bruner

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own…

— Calvin Coolidge

All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.

— Theodore H White

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well,…

— Martin Luther King III