Quotes About Agency

I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.

Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a "yes.

the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Özgür irade ile seçilen kötülük, organize güçler taraf?ndan kiÅŸiye dayat?lan deterministik iyilikten daha m? insancad?r ?

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.

Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.

Parem de me tratar feito uma coisa que é só pra ser usada. Não sou um idiota sobre o qual vocês possam se impor […]

When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Nem jobb-e bizonyos értelemben az, aki a rosszat választja, mint az, akire rákényszerítik a jót?

Because then we're all doomed. That's to say that our entire experience, even our thoughts and feelings, are controlled and caused by others. It's to believe that we're not responsible for who we've become.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

We all have choices, Nick. Even if it's nothing more than the choice between lesser evils. No one can take away your free will. Not even the gods. It's the one gift that can never be returned, stolen, or revoked. We can blame others for our bad decisions. We can say that we had no choice. But it's always a lie. No one puts your hand on the gun but you. Only you can decide if you pick it up or leave it alone.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

The tension between the harsh super-ego and the ego that is subjected to it, is called by us the sense of guilt; it expresses itself as a need for punishment. Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.