Quotes About Autonomy

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'...and the other twenty percent isn't very important.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation.

But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

No, I hadn't made any decision; my mouth was leading its own life.

You can die anyplace. They've never managed to regulate that.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

I wouldn't want Larry to die through my oversight. Larry is entitled to work out his own damn foolishness without having it cut short through my carelessness. Duke, I believe in everyone's working out his own damnation his own way . . . but nevertheless that is no excuse for an adult to give a dynamite cap to a baby as a toy.

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.

You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

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He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all

nobody has ever been able to keep a girl off her back when she decides it's time. When she decides—that's the key to the matter.