Quotes About Agency

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

pocas cosas están bajo nuestro control.

Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing." Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1

Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing." Epictetus, Enchiridion,

The Personal Opportunity and Work Responsibility Act was the most dramatic blow against the welfare state in half a century. It was the culmination of a long-running argument between the Right and the Left over individual agency and the demoralization that accompanies dependency.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

But the balance of power is still tilted in favor of the doctor. When a patient tries to talk to a rushed doctor, wanting both assistance and agency, the conversation is often fraught on both sides.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

It was her choice. In a world where so many choices weren't hers, it was a wonderful thing.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

with a particular history, in a particular place and local culture, perhaps informed by a particular mood or thought. This means we also have to mix in human agency, the part played by people's own reactions. Altogether, it's an enigmatic alchemy of often transitory influences and impulses. As a result, there is little observable order.

Those closer to home have been lashed in the face by a nation that praises white hustle but despises such agency in their darker kin.

But people's ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.

Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choice that human beings can make and billiard balls cannot.

Los liberales igualitarios que defienden el Estado del bienestar sobre la base del igualitarismo de la suerte se ven condenados, casi inevitablemente, a recurrir a una retórica de la victimización que describe a los perceptores de ayudas como individuos sin agencia, incapaces de actuar de forma responsable.