Thoughts on sovereignty

Last Updated: Aug 11, 2018, 05:13 IST1 min

Image: Rich Polk/ Getty images for AfiYou celebrate who you are. You say, ‘This is my kingdom’.&thinsp —Salma Hayek

Image: Stock montageA born king is a very rare being. —Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.—Coco Chanel

Image: VCG Wilson/ Corbis via Getty imagesNothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. —Napoléon BonaparteI do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.—Mary Wollstonecraft

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man’s rope. —Louis L’Amour

The sovereignty of one’s self over oneself is called liberty.—Albert Pike

The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.—Henry Miller

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.—Emma Goldman

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.—Constantin BrâncuÈ™i Image: Corbis via Getty imagesSovereignty is not given it is taken.—Mustafa Kemal AtatürkThe sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. —BR Ambedkar Image: ShutterstockWhatever this is that I am, it is flesh and spirit... and the ruling part.—Marcus Aurelius

Image: Getty imagesDon’t depend on others, or by and by you won’t be able to depend on yourself—nor will anyone else. —BC Forbes

First Published: Aug 11, 2018, 05:13

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