Cory Doctorow Quotes

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Nowadays everyone is trying to live up to the expectations of their surroundings, especially in the industry they work for, and I think that we forget that we also can decide and just say, I'm ending it because I want to.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.