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Quotes About Autonomy

I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much 'The Brightest Void' and 'The Shadow Self' are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.
~ Tarja Turunen
Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.
~ Robert Nozick
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
~ Ernst Mach
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
~ Lincoln Steffens
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
~ Benjamin Tucker
It is common practice in many countries, such as U.S.A., Denmark and Holland, for different sections of society to set up their own schools, whether they are parents themselves, voluntary groups and charities, or private not-for-profit and for-profit companies.
~ Damian Green
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
~ Harry Browne
I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.
~ Sophie Dahl
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
~ Gertrude Stein
When push comes to shove, people vote alone.
~ Meles Zenawi
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
~ Carles Puigdemont
I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
~ Bobby Brown
I think the voters can make up their own minds.
~ Jeb Bush
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
~ MJ Hegar
I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
~ Kenny G
You should seek approval from yourself.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side.
~ Sherry Argov
What could be more satisfying for an actor than having the liberty to select and do the work of his choice.
~ Ranvir Shorey
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.
~ Leandra Medine
Do you really think that the Catalans will end their struggle for their right of self-determination because of a legal decision?
~ Jordi Cuixart
It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.
~ Kristin Cavallari
Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.
~ Russ
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
~ Kelsey Grammer