Quotes About Autonomy

So we did what we always do when there is dissent: nothing. We believe blindly in the virtues of dissent. We don't want a crowd of brainwashed workers. We don't want them to sing company songs, memorize company mission statements, and learn to speak only when spoken to.

No vivía por nadie ni para nadie ni con nadie ni ante nadie ni desde nadie ni según nadie ni en nadie porque vivir en pareja no sólo era una farsa, sino un atajo a la doble personalidad

absolute criminality is absolute freedom.

If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant...Fuck you.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

ONE OF THE MAIN focuses in my work has been discovering ways to help people achieve what I call "personal freedom". Personal freedom means having the freedom to be able to control your thoughts and to manifest the kinds of feelings you want in your life.

Once they have a choice, people always make the best choice. The trouble is that people don't think they have one.

the goal was not simply to make the thought-control target admit his errors and flaws but to so thoroughly destroy his sense of autonomous individuality that he feels gratitude and love for the leader who restored him to the correct path—Chairman Mao.

hay un área en las que usted debe meterse y hacer buena parte de trabajo por sí mismo es el proceso de contratación.

Narrowness and pragmatism are characteristic of the dominant ways of thought under capitalism, where the individualism of economic man is a model for the autonomy and isolation of all phenomena, and where a knowledge industry turns scientific ideas into marketable commodities—precisely the magic bullets that the pharmaceutical industry sells people.

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

In our understanding, a policy is "paternalistic" if it tries to influence choices in a way that will make choosers better off, as judged by themselves. 3

Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely and voluntarily) resist it. If we ask the waiter to select a good bottle of wine to go with our dinner, we will not be happy if he says that we should just choose for ourselves!

A servant's too often a negligent elf; if it's business of consequence, do it yourself!

Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.

That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

The person who lets the world control him, no longer possesses his inner self.

Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes

He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn't feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.

Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.