Abandon Quote by Emile Durkheim

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through…

— Samuel Johnson

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can…

— African Spir

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in…

— Shelby Steele

“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own…

— Ludwig von Mises

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude…

— Rudolf Rocker

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of…

— Henry David Thoreau

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“When both privileges and the disqualifications of class have been abolished and men have shattered the bonds which once held them immobile, the idea…

— Alexis de Tocqueville