Quotes About Autonomy

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge.

Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

They say that people should be free to do as they like. That's what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.

We crave autonomy. Autonomy is closely linked to arrogance. They are both expressions of human pride, but autonomy suggests that we want to be separate from more than over. We want to establish the rules rather than submit to the lordship of the living God. This was the essence of Adam's original sin. We want to interpret the world according to our system of thought. We want to establish our own parallel universe, separate from God's.

the major relational problem for our species is not getting together; protoplasm loves to join. The problem is preserving self in a close relationship. No human on planet Earth does that well.

those who lack self-definition, whether they are children, marriage partners, employees, clients, therapists, or supervisors, will always perceive those who are well-defined to be "headstrong.

No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Don't waste your time asking somebody else's question.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Es cierto que uno quizás sea más excéntrico - mañoso - autista que los demás, pero uno está en su derecho.

Ambos quieren un pedazo de mí. Y mientras más quieren, menos les doy.

I don't live in France, I live in myself.

No acepto ya la condición de Hombre-Avispa, de Hombre-Ninguno, ni admito que el ritmo de mi existencia sea marcado por el mazo de un cómitre.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.