Quotes About Autonomy

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

People ought to be allowed to drop to pieces in any way they choose. I even disapprove of propping them up. Let nations, like men, die in peace. I rather feel as if I had been delivering pep talks to men dying of cancer.

Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.

Eso es lo más podrido de tener un novio, que te pasas la vida haciendo excepciones. Cosas que nunca te daría la gana hacer.

Yours is the face of a post-modern woman.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

minorities granted a crumb of political autonomy in exchange for providing an optical simulation of cultural diversity in their country of residence

I kept my gaze steady on him. "My greatest nightmare is to be owned by someone." "No. Your nightmare is being owned by someone unworthy.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

The awesome privilege of being healthy and free to choose how to spend our time.

You can't expect people to build their lives around you

But saying yes would feel like caving in, and Emma knew from novels that you should never cave in to marriage.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

committees can criticize, but they cannot create.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Never allow two people to do a job which one could do. George Washington observed, 'Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Healthy individuals are not interested in rescuing desperate peers, nor do they feel guilty about leaving or avoiding excessively demanding acquaintances.

Then growing up is not a matter of discovering who or what one really is, but joining the general amnesia whereby each of us pretends to be an autonomous person and learns how to play the social game of constantly reassuring each other that, yes, you are a person, just like me, and I'm okay, you're okay.

Many people could not understand that the idea of government is not to provide, the way parents provide for a child.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace," he said. "I wanted to make mistakes and nobody would care.