It 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
I 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
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
—BR Ambedkar
(This story appears in the 17 August, 2018 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)