Quotes About Self Determination

#1. Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

Pepe Eliaschev

#2. Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

Alan Bullock

#3. If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Jack Kevorkian

#4. Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

Bill Crawford

#5. Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

Suzanne Keys

#6. I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.

Ken Stott

#7. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.

Jaroslav Hasek

#8. The virtues developed here in the age range [around the age of 2] of are trust or faith, and will power and self determination according to the Erickson model. The existential questions being addressed here in this stage are, can one trust the world? and, is it alright to be myself?

Leviak B. Kelly

#9. We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

Barack Obama

#10. I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Joseph Lowery

#11. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

Jonathan Haidt

#12. The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

Barack Obama

#13. Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way
rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

Richard Paul Evans

#14. In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.

Sebastian Junger

#15. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

J. Robert King

#16. The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Jalal Talabani

#17. Freedom is self-determination.

Baruch Spinoza

#18. Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Billy Forbes

#19. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

John F. Kennedy

#20. When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

Khaled Mashal

#21. Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#22. Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Todd Akin

#23. McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

Morley Safer

#24. The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.

Assata Shakur

#25. 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. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

Paul Ryan

#26. Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Germaine Greer

#27. You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Sophia Amoruso

#28. The notion that religion can actually be something ... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.

Simon Schama

#29. When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Jesse Jackson

#30. they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination - autonomy,

Sebastian Junger

#31. But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Karl Liebknecht

#32. Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.

Pete Hamill

#33. You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.

David Cameron

#34. My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Ani DiFranco

#35. The liberty that the Band of Brothers fought for was not a freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want, but rather a freedom from tyranny, a freedom of self-determination, a freedom to make something of our lives.

Marcus Brotherton

#36. I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life

June Jordan

#37. Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

Najib Mikati

#38. Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Woodrow Wilson

#39. To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

Bell Hooks

#40. There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Vladimir Putin

#41. The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Che Guevara

#42. There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Amir Butler

#43. In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

Dick Thornburgh

#44. After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

Dick Thornburgh

#45. I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Assata Shakur

#46. International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Norman Finkelstein

#47. Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

Garry Kasparov

#48. I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Eliot Engel

#49. Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination," Plagueis said. "Courage comes next.

James Luceno

#50. Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#51. Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

Jasper Fforde

#52. Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Gerda Lerner

#53. Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

Dick Thornburgh

#54. The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

Franz Kafka

#55. Self determination is greatest will power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Pete Hegseth

#57. The Ottoman Empire ... The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs ... with a lot of local self determination.

Noam Chomsky

#58. History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.

S.M. Sigerson

#59. 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.

Herbert Marcuse

#60. Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Peter Camejo

#61. Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Rita Dove

#62. Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Vladimir Putin

#63. If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#64. Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination.

Frank Herbert

#65. No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#66. If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

#67. The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

John Hope Bryant

#68. All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

William Ellery Channing

#69. The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

P. W. Botha

#70. Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Jalal Talabani

#71. Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Henri Nouwen

#72. We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

Angela Merkel

#73. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#74. Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third - the urge to worship

Aldous Huxley

#75. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

Maurice Saatchi

#76. During a peak experience," Maslow explained, "the individual experiences an expansion of self, a sense of unity, and meaningfulness in life. The experience lingers in one's consciousness and gives a sense of purpose, integration, self-determination and empathy.

Steven Kotler

#77. The term "universal" Freemason marks only an arrogant wish and surrenders the efforts of every Freemason away from the beauty of self-determination

Vasilios Karpos

#78. Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination.

Rudolf Rocker

#79. It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Maurice Saatchi

#80. No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Vladimir Lenin

#81. The histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

June Jordan

#82. Criminalization is a human rights issue because it disregards the fundamental principles of self-determination, bodily integrity, and sexual freedom.14

Melinda Chateauvert

#83. We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

#84. self-determination theory." Many theories of behavior pivot around a particular human tendency: We're keen responders to positive and negative reinforcements, or zippy calculators of our self-interest, or lumpy duffel bags of psychosexual conflicts.

Daniel H. Pink

#85. Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

Harvey Pekar

#86. Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

Justice Smith

#87. For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.

Angela Merkel

#88. Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

Robin Hobb

#89. Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

David Blunkett

#90. Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.

Jonathan Edwards

#91. We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

David Blunkett

#92. Zionism, like other self-determination movements ...

Ruth Wisse

#93. I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss my ass. If I want something badly enough, I can have it. If I focus, sacrifice, there is nothing I can't do.

Emma Chase

#94. Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany.

Gunter Grass

#95. When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Ronald Reagan

#96. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.

Emily Thorne

#97. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

Roopleen

#98. You have the capacity to do all the work you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#100. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson