Quotes About Autonomy

Everything isn't about synergy.

It's one of the disadvantages of succeeding early. I missed simple things like having a driver's license. I think everyone has one. For so many people, a license is an obligation, but it wasn't for me. Licenses are often synonymous with autonomy, but I had my autonomy so early that I've had drivers at my disposal. It was never a priority.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful." The young man promptly replied, "If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live on cabbage.

We are living through the invention of independent female adulthood....After a long history during which living solo would get you labeled a pathetic spinster or, if you were lucky, a sexual iconoclast, being recognized as an independent person rather than as someone's daughter, wife, or mother is a new, shiny kind of liberty for women, one that has unlocked all sorts of doors.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

we are all the sons of choices

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Siempre he considerado un acto miserable mendigar la vida como un favor. O se vive como uno desea, o es mejor no seguir viviendo

The autonomy of the state is so great as to suggest a permanent will wholly independent of the will of individuals who are its current members.

Wem die Fähigkeit abhandengekommen ist, selbstbestimmt zu handeln, ist aber nicht meinesgleichen.

All meine Grenzgänge sind ausschließlich meiner Verantwortung unterworfen. »Höhere« und unpersönliche Regeln gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang nicht. Ich fragte auch nie nach »erlaubt oder verboten«, es ging mir immer nur um »möglich oder unmöglich«. Sinn gab allein ich selbst meinem Tun.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power;

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

In reality, once we imitate Jesus, we discover that our aspiration to autonomy has always made us bow down before individuals who may not be worse than we are but who are nonethe less bad models because we cannot imitate them without falling with them into the trap of rivalries in which we are ensnarled more and more.

We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power and prestige. This autonomy, however, is really nothing but a reflection of the illusions projected by our admiration for them. The more this admiration mimetically intensifies, the less aware it is of its own mimetic nature. The more "proud" and "egotistic" we are, the more enslaved we become to our mimetic models.

Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.